[IP] Supermarket: Let your fingers do the paying

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 02:04:53 -0500
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Subject: Supermarket: Let your fingers do the paying

Supermarket: Let your fingers do the paying

By Jo Best
Story last modified Tue Feb 01 12:18:00 PST 2005

A supermarket has given its customers the choice of paying by
fingerprint at a store in the state of Washington--and has found them
surprisingly willing to use the biometric system.

U.S. chain Thriftway introduced the system, which uses technology
from Pay By Touch , in its store in the Seattle area in 2002. It said
it now sees thousands of transactions a month using the payment
method.

Once people have enrolled in the Pay By Touch system, they have their
fingerprint scanned as verification of identity at the checkout. They
then choose which credit card they want to pay the bill with, having
already registered the credit cards with the store.

Thriftway President Paul Kapioski said rather than shying away from
the technology because of concerns about protecting their privacy,
customer demand ensured that the biometric payment system made it
past the pilot stage.

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http://news.com.com/2100-1029-5559074.html




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