Apple to store your fingerprints in the cloud, ripe for hackers and NSA surveillance

‘In the digital age, when governments including ours are increasingly concerned about waging the next war, in large part, via the Internet, Americans’ constitutional right to privacy seems a quaint anachronism. Successive presidential administrations, as well as Congress, appear to have ceded complete control to the intelligence community when it comes to deciding not when, but if, such protections are even warranted, and all in the name of “national security.”

What’s worse, though, is that American technology companies appear ready, willing and able to assist in the constitutional usurpation; one such company is Apple.’

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