Cybercrimes against Consumers: Could Biometric Technology Be the Solution?

Although information technology´s positive impacts on businesses and individuals are substantial, cybercrime continues to represent one of the greatest threats in the digital world. Advances in biometric technology´s capabilities hold promise for solving this problem by offering users greater protection, but more legislative and social-policy work is needed to help realize the technology´s full potential. In the near term, however, organizations can begin by incorporating users´ security and privacy concerns into their biometric policies in terms of data collection, storage, access, and use