Emerging Fingerprint Technologies for Smartphones

In the November 2022 edition of this publication, an article examined two use cases of fingerprint readers – smartphones and payment cards. The purpose of this article is to take the smartphone use case one step further, to examine emerging technologies for fingerprint readers on this platform. The aim is then to identify the opportunities and threats to existing business that this can bring to personal identity.

The November article considered the security / convenience / trust balance from a consumer perspective in existing smartphone implementations. This work looks in a different direction, at technologies where the fingerprint reader is embedded beneath the display screen, and we will examine the implications of this.

Finally, we will look at where ‘beneath screen’ technologies could take us into the future.