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What are biometrics?

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Biometrics is used as a replacement for passwords. For example, on your computer instead of typing in a login password, you simply scan in your fingerprint. Biometrics are about using any uniquely identifying physcial feature in a person to identify them.....such as the fingerprint.

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In some contexts "Life Measurements" or the measurements of the body and its energies and motions.

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