Fingerprints may be new "smart" cards.
By taiguy
@taiguy (478)
United States
July 23, 2007 2:28pm CST
An employee of Hitachi has demonstrated a cash machine using a biometric security system to read the user's fingers during a press conference in Tokyo. Taking the idea of a cashless society to a new levl, the Japanese company has said it will try out a way to let customers pay simply by scanning their finger.
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@yanjiaren (9031)
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23 Jul 07
Yes biometrics is already in use with passports..I had to get a new biometric passport to travel to the U.S so more and more companies and societies will be using this method to simplify security and alleviate fraud on unilateral levels. I think this will spare more time for the various police forces and security persons to concentrate on fighting other types of crime.
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@taiguy (478)
• United States
23 Jul 07
It appears what they are doing is storing the biometric info (i.e. fingerprint digital signature) on the smart card (i.e. passport) and then use a RFID to send the biometric info to a customs and immgiration computer which then performs the validation against your fingerprint swipe.
