Phones will start matching your fingerprint on both device and SIM card

Your fingerprint will soon be required on your phone for a whole lot more than unlocking it.

Thailand plans to start making it compulsory for new prepaid or postpaid SIM card buyers to register their fingerprints.

Users' prints will go into a national database, allowing the identity of each phone user to be traced, according to the Bangkok Post.

In addition to SIM cards, mobile operators will also launch apps to verify fingerprints, allowing them to match the fingerprint of the device user to the one that bought the SIM card. Read more...