Why your bank knows exactly how you hold your phone | Money

Banks are ramping up use of technology to monitor your smartphone and computer in a bid to stop fraud.

The big high street names are partnering with tech companies that can register everything from the way you hold your mobile phone to how quickly you type in digits.

From the moment you go to the login screen of your online banking or open up your bank’s mobile app, software running in the background, helped by sensors built into smartphones, starts recording hundreds if not thousands of tiny patterns of your behaviour without you knowing.

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The idea is that your very particular habits prove your identity as much as your thumbprint or your passwords.

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