There are plenty of places where quick and easy authentication is important, and some amount of hard to fake is desirable, but it's not important enough for a strong password. Fingerprint readers are harder to fool than a 4-digit pin and unique enough that a mid-large group of people won't have any confusion.
Fast food sign-in is the perfect low-stakes use of fingerprints. There's some real baggage from when they were harder to gather and how they're used in law enforcement as to why they're considered sensitive, but they're really not. Getting the law and society to agree will take some time, though, and there's a ton of reactionary forces trying to hype up the threat.
Fast food sign-in is the perfect low-stakes use of fingerprints. There's some real baggage from when they were harder to gather and how they're used in law enforcement as to why they're considered sensitive, but they're really not. Getting the law and society to agree will take some time, though, and there's a ton of reactionary forces trying to hype up the threat.