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"If someone steals your thumbprint, you can’t get a new thumb"
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/29/business/reading-your-palm-for-securitys-sake.htmlDecember 28, 2013
Reading Your Palm for Securitys Sake
By ANNE EISENBERG
They arent taking any chances at Barclays Bank in Britain. Stating an account number and other bona fides isnt enough to get to your money at the banks wealth and investment management service. As an additional safeguard, a program analyzes customers voices when they call in, to make sure they match a voice print on file.
At some A.T.M.s in Japan, getting cash isnt simply a matter of entering a bank card and a password. The machine scans the vein pattern in a persons palm before issuing money.
And, since September, people have been using fingerprint sensors on their iPhone 5s to unlock their devices, or to shop at the iTunes store.
These are three examples of biometrics systems, which have long been the province of border control, military surveillance and national intelligence. Now they are rapidly moving into the consumer mainstream to unlock laptops and smartphones, or as a supplement to passwords at banks, hospitals and libraries.
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"If someone steals your thumbprint, you can’t get a new thumb" (Original Post)
jsr
Dec 2013
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blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)1. Yuck.
And I understand that all newborns in Mexico have their retinal images stored in a Government database now.
Resistance is futile.
marble falls
(57,112 posts)3. Being dyslexic makes reading fun .....
I read "rectal images" three times before I got it right.
marble falls
(57,112 posts)2. Title says it all.