In a few years, we will look back at the iPhone 5s as a milestone in terms of biometrics, strong authentication, and a wave of new types of trusted applications. Apple and the industry at large must collaborate on standards to push biometric ubiquity. The down side of strong authentication and PKI is the potential impact on privacy, especially due to the NSA snooping/tampering revelations about the Orwellian NSA programs. We could also implement applications for digital signing of documents.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2225729/apple-s-iphone-5s-touch-id—a-game-changer.html