Japanese telecoms carrier NTT DoCoMo has extended deployment of its FIDO Certified strong authentication to customers with biometric smartphones.DoCoMo customers using iOS 9 or later devices will be able to securely authenticate themselves with Apple's Touch ID fingerprint recognition feature instead of a password when using the DOCOMO d ACCOUNT app, now available in the App Store.In a media update, DOCOMO said, “The app will encourage more DoCoMo partner companies to incorporate the FIDO standard as users demand biometric authentication for an increasingly diverse range of mobile handsets.””The expansion of cross-platform support from NTT DoCoMo highlights the growing global consensus that using open standards from FIDO Alliance is the right strategy for moving the connected economy off its dependency on passwords,” said Brett McDowell, executive director of the FIDO Alliance.
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