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by lab14 398 days ago
You can also lose your fingerprints the older you get. My mother in law is 65 and she has essentially no fingerprints (she used to have when younger though).
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I believe loss of collagen also makes iPhone and Android and laptop fingerprint scanners perform much less reliably. I have no idea how border security scanners cope. I've noticed with seniors I help with digital life how they prefer face ID or pin, the fingerprint readers never seem to them to be as reliable.
Can confirm. Did a bunch of concrete work last summer, which ended up getting concrete inside my work gloves. Had to use passwords/windows hello all last summer.
> I have no idea how border security scanners cope.

They don't, cue Immigration officials being frustrated with seniors who are debarking after an international flight with a queue forming behind them....

https://www.ifsecglobal.com/access-control/why-age-is-not-ju...