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Your Fingerprint Buys Groceries in Seattle

Posted by timothy on from the don't-lose-your-id dept.

lildogie writes: "The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that a Thriftway grocery store is installing fingerprint scanners that they will use to identify customers." Each customer's payment method (credit, debit) is then automatically applied at checkout. Haven't they seen Charlie's Angels?

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  1. Your Fingerprint Also . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Can lead you away from the evil Slashdot. Please, make a fingerprint on your mouse when the cursor is over the "X" button on the browser window.

  2. porst fist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ack

  3. 4th post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I claim this fourth post for the blackout of the past week

  4. If he were here by TheFrench · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If Karl Marx were here, the slashdot editorial would suck him off, and Taco would be obliged to demonstrate "taco snotting."

  5. Fox Mulder returns to X-Files !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mulder returns, but he has been horribly mutated by an experiment.

    BTW: Spoiler

  6. first post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yay.

  7. Patents again by if(false)+revelation · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Indivos has sued Biometric Access for patent infringement.
    Kapioski said his store will not have to pay for installing the image readers, but will pay a per-transaction fee to Indivos.

    +RANT
    Wow, isn't that great. We've seen this done to so many, possibly very important, new inventions: patents! If maybe Indivos could put their greed aside for a while, they could spend time on making products that are competitive and dont need suing. I dont mean to sound like a flamebait (but i probably am), but the fact that this is mentioned in only two sentences in the whole article irritates me: has it really become that commonplace to sue for patent infringement?
    -RANT

    The actual technology is extremely secure for the moment: everyone will noticed the guy with the photocopy taped to his finger. By the time people start to try to abuse the system, it will already be upgraded, unless it suffers from the same problem as RAMBUS!
    --
    I listen to dune, do you?
  8. Re:How so? by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Or do what I did. Get a "happy customer tracking card" under the name of someone else. Perhaps in the name of the Chairman of the Board of Safeway:

    Steven A Burd
    5918 Stoneridge Mall Road
    Pleasanton, CA 94588
    925-467-3000

    or the Chairman of the Board of Kroger:

    Joseph A Pichler
    1014 Vine Street
    Cinicinnati, OH 45202
    513-762-4000

    or the Chairman of Winn-Dixie:

    A Dano Davis
    5050 Edgewood Court
    Jacksonville, FL 32254
    904-783-5000

    You usually aren't asked for ID when applying, and you can still use cash or any other form of payment at the time of purchase.

  9. Re:OT: Welcome to the Troll Hunter(tm)! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Now if only [s]he knew which state Los Alamos was in, it would have gone undetected!

  10. Re:Low tech implementation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dude, you are replying to the wrong comment.
    BTW, yeah, several years ago it was indeed in NM b/c I worked there.