Touchscreen
Posted: Wed 14 December, 2005 Filed under: Customer Services, Thoughts 2 Comments »I wonder how long it’ll be before some bright spark figures out how to use a touchscreen to scan for fingerprints at the same time.
That way when you’re using an ATM to get money, and touch the screen to say what amount you want, or what options you want at the time, the screen could scan your fingerprint on the button, and lo, instant ID verification without having to twat about with PIN numbers, cameras, fingerprint scanners or anything.
Seems like a good idea to me, but I assume there must be some kind of technical problem with it. Otherwise surely someone would’ve done it already, right?
You mean apart from the incentive for thieves to remove their victims’ fingers?
Regardless that wouldn’t stop the usual suspects faffing around unsure which button to press then getting a statement printed, then taking their card out, putting it back in…
Ohh and if it can read our fingerprints we wouldn’t need the card either.