New South Wales (NSW) police are on the lookout for portable fingerprint scanners that are compatible with Samsung Note 4, a move that MobileIDWorld predicts will cause minimal privacy waves. The search for the scanners was catalyzed by the police department’s desire to streamline the identity-check process, the report states, noting that while “there has also been strenuous ongoing debate in the country about associated privacy and civil rights issues … the NSW Police efforts in this case are fairly incremental … and are unlikely to spark a major controversy, at least until the police actually start using fingerprint sensors in the field.”
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