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Fingerprint Payment System Gets Financing

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the take-my-finger-to-the-store-and-buy-bread dept.

prostoalex writes to tell us Yahoo! News is reporting that Pay By Touch, an electronic payments startup that connects your fingerprint to your wallet, has received an additional $130 million in financing to move forward with their biometric payment system.

2 of 179 comments (clear)

  1. For extra security... by Errandboy+of+Doom · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...change your fingerprint every 6 weeks:
    How To Fake Fingerprints

  2. Re:Oh, great. by austad · · Score: 4, Informative

    Temperature can be fooled too with this technique, and it allows one to lift a fingerprint from just about anywhere, including the fingerprint scanner they just used.

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