"Retailers Experiment With Biometric Payment" article
Heyman, Michael
Michael.Heyman at sparta.com
Thu Jun 9 11:17:59 EDT 2005
>From
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/08/AR20050
60802335_pf.html>:
"You can always get a new Social Security number, but
you certainly can't get a new thumbprint...," Lee [of
EFF] said...Robinson, of BioPay, argues that a personal
check written at a grocery store passes through eight
people before it is cashed, a process he considers much
less secure than a biometric payment, in which the
fingerprint image is connected immediately to the
user's bank account. "What can I do to hurt you if I
have a picture of the tip of your finger? Not much,"
Robinson said, contending that associating fingerprints
with legal troubles is unwarranted. BioPay does not
share its biometric data with government agencies, and
in fact, the full fingerprints are not stored in the
system. Instead, a complex mathematical algorithm is
created to represent identifying characteristics of
the fingerprint, which are matched to the real thing
when a user shows up at a checkout counter.
No discussion on the threat of finger removal...
-Michael
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