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JPMorgan Requires Staff to Hand Over Biometric Data to Access New Headquarters

posted by hubie on Monday October 20, @09:26AM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-sure-they'll-delete-the-records-when-they're-no-longer-needed dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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?]

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by gnuman on Monday October 20, @02:34PM (3 children)

    by gnuman (5013) on Monday October 20, @02:34PM (#1421487)

    Also, biometrics are bad. You know why? Because when someone steals your biometric data, you can't change it. And yes, they will be stolen, just like passwords.

    Except this is for building access ... they could have just used facial recognition instead here. Yes, if someone steals your head, I'm sure no one would notice and let you in the door, just like if someone stole your RFID key or similar. This is not about secrets. It's about ID, like you have photo in passport so that people/computers can compare the passport with your face.

    It's incorrect to compare this to passwords. Passwords are meant to be secret. Your face is not. But I guess they could use DNA in the future, like Gattaca (sans the blood sample)

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Monday October 20, @02:48PM (2 children)

    by Rosco P. Coltrane (4757) on Monday October 20, @02:48PM (#1421492)

    Biometrics for identification purposes are fine. The problem is, they're used for authentication.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by canopic jug on Monday October 20, @05:11PM (1 child)

      by canopic jug (3949) on Monday October 20, @05:11PM (#1421508) Journal

      Indeed. Biometrics are the username, not the password. Attempting to use them in place of the latter weakens the system that is done to.

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      • (Score: 2) by gnuman on Monday October 20, @08:37PM

        by gnuman (5013) on Monday October 20, @08:37PM (#1421532)

        Indeed. Biometrics are the username, not the password. Attempting to use them in place of the latter weakens the system that is done to.

        For building access, biometrics (eg. face recognition) can take place in addition or in-place of something like RFID cards... RFID cards are not passwords either.... so using biometrics here is not really detrimental. On the other hand, such systems are not meant to replace passwords, etc. -- I fully agree on that. But door access *rarely* uses access codes in addition to keycards or similar. And in most of those cases you'd have human guards to make sure no one is doing anything funny.