Your Heartbeat Can Give Away Your Identity, Like a Fingerprint

Our heartbeats differ just enough to tell us apart, but they also give away potentially sensitive information

Nathaniel Scharping
OneZero
Published in
6 min readJun 10, 2020

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Heartbeats, like our fingerprints and faces, are unique. The distinctive waveforms generated by a heart’s expansions and contractions differ just enough from person to person…

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