Internet has boosted age of Big Data and every second Petabytes of data is generated on different social, e-commerce, business websites. To keep track of all this data require very advance tools and efficient workforce.
NSA is notorious for being the key player in Global Suvellience system. It is somewhat impossible to be fully anonymous unless if you took extreme steps to protect your privacy. There are many conspiracy theories about surveillance via cell phones and computer usage.
Apple started these bio-metric verification system by introducing fingerprint scanner or now in their latest iPhone X facial scanner. When Microsoft released preview version of Windows 10, it has builtin key-logger which is a software that record each key stroke pressed by you on keyboard and sends it anonymously back its developer. Windows 10's final version still has this feature, you can check it under Settings>Speech,Inking & Typing.
Now Microsoft wants to put fingerprint scanner in keyboard and has already applied to acquire Patents for this.
This fingerprint scanning would be done with the help of ultrasonic image sensing technology that can work past a thickness of 500 microns.
If you want to know full details about this patent then you can visit following link
KEYSET FINGERPRINT SENSOR