Biometric Payment Arrives in a Store Near You

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday June 24, 2006 @06:12AM from the new-string-of-finger-thefts dept.

"A chain of Florida convenience stores has begun accepting fingerprints as payment, using a biometric system called Pay By Touch. The company is a Bay-area startup backed by $130 million in VC cash and the acquisition of BioPay, a Virginia-based biometrics firm that's already done $7 billion in European transactions. From the article: 'The company is a bit puzzled by customer privacy fears. After all, they say, how can using a unique fingerprint for identification be riskier to theft than a plastic card, key chain token, or account number? ...The fingerprint image recorded is not the same as those collected by the federal government or law enforcement.'"

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fp by Anonymous Coward · 2006-06-24 06:13 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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