The phrase "access a fingerprint" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to security, technology, or biometric systems where retrieving or utilizing fingerprint data is necessary.
Example: "To unlock the device, you need to access a fingerprint stored in the system."
Alternatives: "retrieve a fingerprint" or "obtain a fingerprint."
If you're paranoid about the data on your hard drive falling into the wrong hands, you might be interested in a feature that ensures that only your hands can access it: a fingerprint scanner, which uses biometric security to lock down your device.
Apple fessed up to the Washington Times, confirming iOS 9.3.1 contained a bug that made it easy to bypass lockscreen security (both PIN and fingerprint) to access a user's contacts and photos (a video of this can be seen below).
iOS 9.3 brings a range of other improvements including the option to lock information in the Notes app so that it can only be accessed with a fingerprint, and new Health features that allow for extra information to be shown within that app.
The law would launch a pilot program to make it easier for groups to access FBI fingerprint files as an alternative to the time-consuming and costly process to use fingerprints to check the background data on volunteers.
In June, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo suspended New York's participation in a key federal program, called Secure Communities, that makes it easier for immigration authorities to access the fingerprints of everyone booked into a local jail and to begin deportation proceedings against noncitizens.
She said British detectives investigating murder or rape cases were already able to access DNA and fingerprint databases held by other European police forces.
The program, Secure Communities, allows Immigration and Customs Enforcement to access the fingerprints that local police share with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Under that program, immigration officials began to access the fingerprints of all arrestees and ask police and sheriff's departments to hold suspects for up to 48 hours after their scheduled release so they could be transferred to federal custody.
The company also uses "dimensional obfuscation" -- or parsing and re-encryption of data -- to further protect any network information accessed through fingerprint scanning.
