Something important to note in the OPM data breach: 1.1 million fingerprints were stolen [1], and it would've been a lot more if say this happened 10 years later, and the US, just like Estonia, India and I think a few other countries, started asking their citizens for their fingerprints and stored them in their own databases.
When the governments start telling people "Hey, you already love using your fingerprint on that iPhone of yours - so why not give us your fingerprint, too? We'll make your life so much easier!", forgetting to mention that there's a drastic difference between the iPhone keeping a local "template" of the fingerprint, while the governments are likely keeping the fingerprint data directly and on their own servers - fight it as much as possible.
Remember you only have so many fingerprints, and even fewer of them you'll probably consider "practical" for authentication to devices and whatnot. Don't let companies or governments lure you into asking for your fingerprint and storing it for you on their servers "for your convenience".
Biometrics are fundamentally flawed as they can't be revoked.
I've never understood why people feel they are a good solution, my bank gave me a little card gizmo, I put my code in it generates a cryptographically secure response.
If it's stolen or lost I just ring them up and they invalidate it.
If a full fingerprint image is captured, it can easily be replicated at crime scenes to frame you. While people think that this would be unlikely to happen, we have had nothing but scandal after scandal the past decade from Forensic labs-- literally faking evidence to get convictions or making up whole areas of "science" to get them (The recent FBI Hair Lab is an example of that latter.)
> Don't let companies or governments lure you into asking for your fingerprint and storing it for you on their servers "for your convenience".
This is hard. Any entry to the USA for example requires every alien to have their fingerprints taken, and if more and more countries require this there isn't anywhere to go. Another way is needed to stop this practice.
When the governments start telling people "Hey, you already love using your fingerprint on that iPhone of yours - so why not give us your fingerprint, too? We'll make your life so much easier!", forgetting to mention that there's a drastic difference between the iPhone keeping a local "template" of the fingerprint, while the governments are likely keeping the fingerprint data directly and on their own servers - fight it as much as possible.
Remember you only have so many fingerprints, and even fewer of them you'll probably consider "practical" for authentication to devices and whatnot. Don't let companies or governments lure you into asking for your fingerprint and storing it for you on their servers "for your convenience".
[1] - https://www.opm.gov/cybersecurity/#WhatHappened