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Your Identity is Important
Personal electronic devices are now helping many of us manage our lives. Your
cellphone probably stores your private phone list. Your PDA may hold your
business contacts list, and your email. You may use your
PC to access your bank accounts, pay your bills, or
manage your investments. Finally, any of these electronic
devices may connect with your corporate computer system
via wired or wireless links. In all of these cases you want
convenient access to your data, but you also want confidence that other people
do not have access. AuthenTec’s TruePrint™-technology-based fingerprint
identification systems are a simple reliable means for achieving this.
Your Fingerprint is You
Everyone has fingerprints, those patterns of parallel
Your fingers are always with you,
lines that curl around our fingers. Some
fingerprint patterns are difficult to see, but
never lost and never forgotten.
can still be read by AuthenTec’s
electronic sensors. Those patterns on your fingers are unique and individual to you.
AuthenTec’s fingerprint ID systems can measure and compare those patterns to a high degree of
accuracy. Today, any two persons are highly unlikely to have fingerprints that will appear the same to
AuthenTec’s automated fingerprint matching systems.
Fingerprints are Convenient
AuthenTec’s fingerprint sensors are small and easy to use. They look like small mirrored
tiles when built into a keyboard. You simply touch the sensor – and the sensor reads your
fingerprint.
Now your computer knows you – just by the touch of your finger. It allows you, and only
you, quick convenient access to your accounts, websites, phone lists, and e-mail. Fingerprint ID
systems can be used in many other applications as well, where they provide fast, convenient and
trustworthy personal identification.
Have you ever forgotten your password, left
Just touch the sensor -- and your computer
your keys behind, or lost your ID card?
With fingerprint systems you won’t have
knows its you.
these problems. Your fingers are always
with you. They cannot be lost, forgotten, or left behind.
Accepted, Trusted and Secure Fingerprints have a long history of use
Fingerprints have long been recognized as distinguishing human features.
Fingerprint impressions in clay tablets over 2000 years old have been seen in
archaeological materials from both China and the middle east. Fingerprinting
received a scientific basis through work performed in the 19th and 20th century by a
wide variety of researchers and institutions.
Fingerprint ID is simple, non-intrusive and inherently voluntary
Fingerprint identification is known to the general public, and widely trusted. It is legally recognized and
is in common use in law enforcement and in general security. Fingerprint identification is inherently
voluntary. Your finger cannot be read unless you place it on the fingerprint reader -fingerprints cannot be read involuntarily from a distance. Finally, today’s fingerprint
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systems are non-intrusive and non-threatening. The large clunky military-looking
devices of the past are gone, replaced by modern sensors that are small, benign looking, and easy to
use.
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