Analysis: Your phone could soon recognize you based on how you move or walk
In this Sept. 16, 2017, file photo, a person uses a smart phone in Chicago.
It's working with computer chipmakers and smartphone developers to make the technology commercially available as early as 2020, The tech companies haven’t made any firm commitments to adopt the identification system but appear eager to integrate the technology into smartphones within the next year or two, Wallace said.the technology “will be available in the majority of handsets” in the United States.
In the past, Wallace said, the Pentagon has built super-secure smartphones but they've been too costly to deploy to anyone but a handful of top officials --Once the technology is fully vetted, DoD plans to use the technology for general purpose smartphones but not ones that access classified information, he said.
Similar technology is being used to verify the identities of some employees in highly regulated industries, such as financial services and health care, but it isn’t deployed commercially, Dawud Gordon, CEO of the company TwoSense, which is working on a separate but related DISA project, told me. Those industry tools build the sensing technology into software rather than into the smartphone's hardware, Gordon told me.
If a person is locked out in error, she could regain access using a more standard log in, such as a password, Wallace told me.
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