mother's maiden names...

[Steven M. Bellovin]

In message <p062309b5befafab0f1f0@[68.167.57.91]>, "R.A. Hettinga" writes:
>At 12:26 PM -0400 7/13/05, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>>Why do banks not collect simple biometric information like photographs
>>of their customers yet?
>
>Some do.
>
>Cambridge Trust puts your picture on the back of your VISA card, for
>instance. They have for more than a decade, maybe even two.
>

One New York bank -- long since absorbed into some megabank -- did the 
same thing about 30 years ago.  They gave up -- it was expensive then, 
and may not have solved any real problems.  (Possibly, it simply didn't
fit their real purpose of attracting more customers.)

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb



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