Senator Al Franken voices privacy concerns over Apple's Touch ID in letter to Tim Cook

Apple has gone out of its way to emphasize the secure, locked down nature of its Touch ID fingerprint scanning system, but Senator Al Franken still believes the technology "raises substantial privacy questions." As a result, he's written a letter to CEO Tim Cook requesting more specifics on Touch ID. Franken seems well versed on the information Apple has released thus far, acknowledging that fingerprint data is stored in a dedicated, secure enclave of the A7 chip. But the Minnesota lawmaker say...