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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. Re:Low tech implementation by ceejayoz · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Angela Taylor, PhD
    Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Los Alamos, Nevada

     Ms. Taylor - might wanna check your geography. Los Alamos, Nevada, eh? Someone mod "Ms. Taylor" down, plz... this isn't "Informative", it's made up.

    btw, I've tried out the photocopy thing (on a $99 thumbprint scanner from Staples) - didn't work, it was rejected. If a $99 system can figure out the difference, I'm sure that the government has a comparable or better system.

  2. Re:Fingerprint == Money by MaxVlast · · Score: 0, Redundant

    On the plus side, though, as soon as I call the police, they automatically have the other party's fingerprints :)

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