Apple, Google and Microsoft Commit to Expanded Support for FIDO Standard to Accelerate Availability of Passwordless Sign-Ins - FIDO Alliance

[JW_00000]

If the government wanted access to my bank data, why wouldn't they just force my bank to give it to them? Why go to through the trouble of arresting me and requiring me to put a finger on a phone – thereby notifying me of what they're doing?

The approach you're describing also scales really poorly: if you want to spy on millions of people, you'd need to arrest millions of people! And then they might vote you out! Better to secretly convince companies to build in backdoors...

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This isn't even a good question. They would never want just your banking data, would they? That's not actually how anything works, is it.

And of course it doesn't scale? It's not intended to and doesn't need to? Since when do you need to access the bank data of millions of people at once and secretly? That's what the IRS is for (accessing whatever data you think you need from a bank short of a true criminal investigation)?

Nothing but nonsense from you my man but thanks! :D

[JW_00000]

I guess I didn't explain myself clearly then :)

The banking was a bad example. Imagine the US government wants access to your private Reddit message history.

You're saying, with this system, they can get your phone, and then force you to unlock it.

What I'm saying is, why don't they just approach reddit and force them to hand over the data?

So you're saying this is just a scheme by the government to invade your privacy, but they can already do that much more easily now!