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JPMorgan requires staff to hand over biometric data to access new headquarters New York bank is imposing eye and fingerprint scans amid heightened security concerns at corporate offices
JPMorgan Chase has told staff moving into the US bank's new multibillion-dollar Manhattan headquarters they must share their biometric data to access the building, overriding a prior plan for voluntary enrolment.
Employees who have started work at its 270 Park Avenue skyscraper since August have received emails saying biometric access is "required", according to a communication seen by the Financial Times. This allows people to scan their fingerprints or eye instead of ID badges to get through the lobby security gates.
[...] Dave Komendat, chief security officer at Corporate Security Advisors, said biometrics had been used for decades at higher-security areas, such as government installations and data centres, but putting them in commercial buildings for large numbers of people would be used at a new and larger scale.
https://www.ft.com/content/d5351d3d-d64f-4a90-a3da-d1ef8e8bea66
https://archive.ph/YCV85
[Ed. question: Would this be a deal breaker for any of you for joining or continuing to work at the company?]
(Score: 2, Interesting) by fen on Monday October 20, @10:13AM (4 children)
How do smartphones handle this? Apple talks about hardware separation--this is why you need to redo biometrics on a full phone restore. What are specific problems with fingerprints? Why do we only fingerprint suspected criminals?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by sneftel on Monday October 20, @12:08PM (1 child)
I can't speak for the police, but I suspect they rarely see crime scenes with eyeball prints all over everything.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 20, @06:53PM
> I suspect they rarely see crime scenes with eyeball prints all over everything.
This may change in the future when HD security cameras improve(??) Then the crooks will all wear dark glasses and the cameras will be fitted with strobes....
Not something I'm looking forward to, but sort of seems inevitable.
(Score: 2) by DadaDoofy on Monday October 20, @06:49PM
What are specific problems with fingerprints?
The "problem" with fingerprints lies in cheap, poorly designed inaccurate fingerprint detection, not fingerprints themselves.
Why do we only fingerprint suspected criminals?
Not true. We also fingerprint people who apply for "positions of trust".
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Tuesday October 21, @03:51PM
Why do we only fingerprint suspected criminals?
We don't. We also fingerprint military enlistees, because all that may be left of you is a finger.
I can't remember the movie's name (really long time since I saw it) but there's a Bruce Willis movie where he plays a gangster, and after he saves a dentist's life (or something...) one of the dentist's patients gets blown up in a car, so he does dental work on the gangster to match the corpse's dental records so the mob won't kill (or the cops won't catch) the gangster.
Not the most memorable Bruce Willis film.
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