"...58 percent of Americans said they would use biometrics to verify their identities, as long as the biometric data was secured. Around 38 percent said they would not use biometrics. 'We were not surprised to see this high number,' Unisys' Cohn says. 'Given that fraud and personal data [security] is such a concern, it makes sense that people would figure out the best way to protect it.'
Around 93 percent said they would prefer fingerprint scans as a way to authenticate access to their data with banks, government agencies, and other organizations -- an increase of 20 percent over responses a year ago. Iris scanning was popular,as well, with 79 percent of the respondents saying they were willing to use it for authentication. And 62 percent said they would use biometrics based on scanning the blood vessels in their hands.
Nearly 90 percent would use passwords; 88 percent, PINs; 82 percent, photographs; 74 percent, face scans; and 69 percent, voice recording.
'We were surprised to see some of the biometrics numbers for things like eye scanning and blood vessel-scanning,' Cohn says. 'We didn't expect American consumers to aware of those [yet],' he says." ...more
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