Pinterest Unveils Its New Spam-Fighting Tool

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Millions of voiceprints quietly being harvested as latest identification tool

·          ‘Voice biometrics will be the de facto standard in 2-3 years’

·         More than 65m voiceprints already on databases

·         Barclays is rolling out voiceprint identification for its 12 million retail banking customers. Photograph: Terry Waller/Demotix/Corbis

·         Over the telephone, in jail and online, a new digital bounty is being harvested: the human voice.

·         Businesses and governments around the world increasingly are turning to voice biometrics, or voiceprints, to pay pensions, collect taxes, track criminals and replace passwords.