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6 Reasons Why Biometrics Are NOT the Way of the Future

June 15, 2016June 15, 2016Rudy Deighton Delta Media

For decades, biometrics were seen as futuristic and impractical. Only over the past decade or so has technology caught up to fantasy, bringing down the cost to a point where we can realistically start using biometric identification in everyday life. Apple has a track record of bringing new technologies to the mainstream, so it wasn’t […]

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