biometric payment


Here's an example of how one fingerprint payment system works:

  • The shopper registers for a biometric program at a store kiosk by presenting valid identification and bank account information.
  • The shopper scans his index finger using the kiosk's fingerscan reader.
  • The store's fingerscan reader encrypts multiple point-to-point measurements of the fingerprint and stores the customer's biometric data and banking information in a centralized database.
  • The shopper now has the option of selecting biometric payment at the point of sale register. If he chooses biometric payment, he scans his finger at the checkout register with the store's electronic reader and enters his personal identification number.
  • The electronic reader compares the data from the new scan to the encrypted data in the database and either approves or declines the transaction. If approved, the funds are electronically transferred from the shopper's account to the merchant.


Cited advantages of biometric payment include:

  • Enhanced security for the end user.
  • Speedy transactions.
  • No need for the end user to carry cash, checks or credit cards.

Biometric payment is controversial. Traditionally, fingerprints have been associated with law enforcement. Critics of biometric payment fear that fingerprints could be made available to government agencies or law enforcement officials. Biometric payment service providers are quick to point out that they don't keep the customer's actual fingerprint in their databases -- they keep an encrypted number derived from the finger's point-to-point measurements. (It is that number which is used to verify a customer's identity, not the actual fingerprint.) In the final analysis, a biometric payment system -- like any system that accesses sensitive information -- is only as secure as the associated databases and transactions.

This was last updated in August 2006

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No doubt they will force this on us, and all for our safety, but the real reason is to acclimate us to being totally controlled by the Banking Cartel. Look for total birth control, and all other decisions free people make, to be privileges at a price. 


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