DARPA has awarded researchers at the US military’s elite West Point military academy a multi-million dollar contract to produce a replacement for password authentication based on “cognitive fingerprints”
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Police can demand fingerprints but not passcodes to unlock phones, rules judge
Fingerprints are what you *are*, passcodes are what you *know*. Therefore the police can demand your fingerprints to unlock a phone without contravening the Fifth Amendment, according to a judge in Virginia, USA. 
Is it thumbs up to Barclays bank’s finger-vein-reading authentication?
Barclays Bank has announced plans to introduce biometric authentication based on vein patterns in fingers for its UK business customers, which could signal a major shift in how we access online banking systems.