Comment n-factor security (Score 1) 179
I thought the point of developing biometrics was additive and used as another form/layer of verification, not to stop using all other forms of ID and just use the fingerprint. This idea is doomed to fail: what about handicapped persons?; false reads; the fingerprint signature files from being stolen....? I would rather use a credit card w/ "ask for Id" written in the signature field for all of my transactions.
Finally, who's to say that eventually that this data won't get sold to the federal government by private companies as test data for the TSA/homeland security. Where does the data go when this company goes bankrupt?
Now you get booked before you shop; not if you are a shoplifter.
Finally, who's to say that eventually that this data won't get sold to the federal government by private companies as test data for the TSA/homeland security. Where does the data go when this company goes bankrupt?
Now you get booked before you shop; not if you are a shoplifter.