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Pay By Touch Goes Online

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sort-of dept.

Max Fomitchev writes to tell us that Pay By Touch, the biometric identification service, has announced an online version of their service. While currently the only implementation of this service is in the brick-and-mortar storefront of Star Markets grocery stores, the company hopes that online vendors will start signing up soon.

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  1. Re:Finally! by sugapablo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Back to the Future? What kind of /. nerd are you? First thing that came to my mind is Quark handing me a data pad for my thumbprint.

    Now if I can just get into one of his holosuites and take a spin at "Vulcan Love Slave 2: The Revenge"!

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    Sugapablo
  2. Privacy Concerns ? by Davemania · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Inevitably, this issue will come up. Traditionally, if your credit card or bank card is compromised, you can simply cancel it and acquire a new one but what about biomatric data used for identification ?