Consumers Approve Fingerprint Scanning?

• May 16th, 2007 | General

According to survey study by Synergistics Research Corp., fingerprint scanning gets the thumbs up as a security measure. The study of 1,000 consumers 18 or older indicates that 75% are more concerned with security issues than five years previous. Also, 40% of those surveyed selected fingerprint scanning as the method they were most comfortable with, with retinal scanning, signature verification and voice recognition being the other biometric choices.

Given these four choices, it’s actually not surprising that fingerprint scanning was selected, despite the stigma attached. While experts believe that voice biometrics is accurate, I’m guessing that consumers - or at least those surveyed - are not convinced of that. And we’ve all heard stories of signature forgery and impressionists. Retinal scanning probably has even more of a stigma because it still feels like something out of science fiction - as does palm vein scanning, which was not one of the choices. It’s also far more expensive than these other biometric techniques.