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Originally Posted by etccarmageddon
it's quite shocking - what can the banks do to close this loop hole - ie. card skimming and camera watching you enter your pin?
finger prints to replace the pin and a smart chip on the card?
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The smart chip is already there on many cards. If they now want to add biometric authentication, that can easily be added.
Fingerprint readers are now used quite a lot in different applications (I recently saw a laptop with fingerprint login) but in many of those applications you 'own' the reader. Now, how do you feel about depositing your fingerprint on a nice shiny surface for someone to come and harvest?
One of the reasons they're not mainstream, yet, and why retinal scanning is a good idea - except the equipment for that is much bigger and more expensive, so not as practical to implement.
Biometrics is a growth area since it has applications in all areas where identity is important - maybe the national ID card is waiting for some biometric technology to go with it.