How to Use biometric in a Sentence

biometric

adjective
  • Lorance then sought to cover up his crime by telling his troops not to collect biometric data on the dead.
    Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
  • But what the Whoop gizmo does do is slurp up a lot of biometric data, specifically about the heart.
    Rob Verger, Popular Science, 17 Mar. 2021
  • At a minimum, require a password or biometric scan to unlock the device.
    Kelvin Chan, The Denver Post, 9 Nov. 2024
  • The company and its lawyers previously have denied the app collects biometric data, such as face scans, or shares data with Beijing.
    David Uberti, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2021
  • But Lorance wanted Skelton to follow him into the village to carry out the mission and get the biometric enrollments.
    Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 21 Dec. 2020
  • This raises concerns among legal scholars of a burgeoning biometric cybersurveillance state.
    Annie Jacobsen, Wired, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Facebook will soon pay out hundreds of dollars to Illinoisans impacted by their violation of the state’s biometric privacy laws, laws that other states do not have in place.
    Greg Bishop, Washington Examiner, 19 Jan. 2021
  • There are pros and cons to both of the biometric security systems, but Apple decided that face recognition was an upgrade over fingerprint scanning.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The Illinois law, the toughest statute of its kind in the nation, allows consumers to seek monetary damages if their biometric information is wrongfully taken.
    Joel Rosenblatt, Bloomberg.com, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Size and Weight Is this biometric gun safe going to be mobile?
    Travis Smola, Field & Stream, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Greer and Fight for the Future want biometric technology of all kinds to be banned.
    Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Airlines have not canceled flights so far, and anyone with a biometric passport can use the e-gates.
    Julia Buckley, CNN, 17 Dec. 2022
  • The biometric tech, called Amazon One, was patented in 2019, and this is the company’s biggest launch yet.
    Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 11 Aug. 2022
  • At the same time, the biometric system can check whether a face is spoofed in paper, on a screen, as a mask, or through any other form of spoofing technique.
    Rene Hendrikse, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The biometric payment systems called Amazon One allows shoppers to pay with nothing more than a wave from the palm of their hand.
    Fortune, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Texas is one of just a few states with a law governing the use of biometric data, and this marks the second time that Texas has invoked the 2009 law to file a suit against a company.
    Brian Fung, CNN, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The United Nations used its own biometric systems to track more than 1.5 million Afghan refugees.
    Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2021
  • At the bottom of the escutcheon is a round panel with a biometric fingerprint reader.
    PCMAG, 20 May 2024
  • The most tricky point came down to how far to restrict live biometric identification tools.
    Jillian Deutsch, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Clear uses a biometric scan of your eyes or fingerprints.
    Tara Woodin, ajc, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The program is voluntary, and Delta does not save or store any biometric data, Goswami says.
    Tom Simonite, Wired, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Passengers can opt out of the biometric photo matching and instead see an agent.
    Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Part of the video events are dated 2025 and show a two-door Wrangler EV using biometric recognition, peer-to-peer charging, and drone pairing.
    Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 9 July 2021
  • Instructions on how to safely disable the biometric reader can be found here.
    Kate Gibson, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Illinois is one of just a few states in the United States that have such biometric privacy laws (Texas and Washington, for instance, have their own rules).
    Rachel Metz, CNN, 9 May 2022
  • In 2018, the airline launched the first fully biometric terminal in Atlanta.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Privacy experts have warned against the use by companies of biometric data, such as face or palm scans, because of the risk of it being hacked and stolen.
    Joseph Pisani, Star Tribune, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The agency hasn’t explained the data breach, and it simply can’t be trusted to safeguard biometric data.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The safety dance So are these more advanced biometric screenings hacker-proof?
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2024
  • To become a member, people first have to visit a kiosk and register their details and allow their biometric data to be collected.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024

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