Americans want passwords, not biometrics, survey finds
Most people aren’t interested in fingerprint authentication and other biometric logins, a study has found.
Free email portal mail.com and Yougov surveyed over a thousand folks around the world in July and discovered over half (58 percent) prefer traditional passwords.
A significant proportion of the respondents also said biometry was too hazardous, with “only 9 percent finding the use of biometric methods risk-free,” the mail provider said in its press release. Skepticism and risk aversion is behind the suprising result, the researchers say. Almost half of the survey respondents (42 percent) say they don’t want “companies to save and use their personal biometric data.”
