[commentary] Consumerist writes [via LifeHacker] about a bank who threw out a customer for refusing to supply a fingerprint. WTF?! Seems Bank of America’s rules state that thumbprints must be given if a consumer wants to cash a cheque and they are not a BoA customer. Even if the cheque is issued from a BoA […]

First cash wasn’t fast enough, too much change to count out.  Then credit cards were too slow, too much time spent signing or  entering your PIN.  Now we’ve got biometric fingerprint payments, just scan and go.
Introduced by Citibank in Singapore, where everything must happen at light speed, the new biometric fingerprint payment system is designed […]

Biometrics are being used in more and more applications these days as governments try to come down hard on civil liberties crime and the threat of terrorism.  However, the technology is also proving extremely popular in the private sector as companies begin to use it more extensively to manage the movement / privileges of staff.
Now, […]

With so many countries adopting more secure identification documentation for citizens, technology is playing a very important role in id cards. So is biometrics. In a nutshell, biometrics is the study of uniquely identifying humans by measurable characteristics. This includes the measurement (metrics) of any of the following:

thumb or fingerprint
palm vein patterns

voice
iris/ retina

facial recognition
dna

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