Study: Americans increasingly accept biometric tech for security

Fedscoop: As biometric technologies become increasingly prevalent in the consumer market, Americans are growing more comfortable with governments using the technology as well, according to a new study.

A survey by the Consumer Technology Association — a trade association of tech companies around the country — released last week polled more than a thousand U.S. adults for their attitudes on the tech, which includes things like voice or face recognition software or digital fingerprinting tools. Researchers found that 90 percent of respondents are familiar with some form of biometric technology, and 43 percent said they’ve used it before.

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