The International Biometric Group says no. It is a secure, private and very complicated type of password that cannot be lost, stolen or shared, ensuring that only you have access to your personal data. Fortunately, several inherent characteristics of biometric technology preclude the types of abuses that privacy advocates fear. For example, biometric technologies don't store pictures of fingerprints, iris patterns or recordings of voice prints. It is impossible to recreate the original fingerprint from a finger scan template because the template is based on a variable number of extracted features.
Biometric devices require live submissions.
This limits the possibility of latent prints being fed into nonforensic biometric systems. Also, most biometric vendors encrypt biometric data transmission between a peripheral and PC, and the template is encrypted when stored. All primary biometric technologies, including finger, face, hand, iris, voice and signature recognitions, share these protections. Biometric usage in the public sector, in such programs as entitlements and driver's license issuance, is designed to prevent fraud. Because such fraud prevention programs are, by definition, not implemented on a voluntary basis, states take caution to ensure that there is no sharing of information between agencies.