Biometric payment system

Category Business | Permalink | 4. August 2007

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An employee of Hitachi demonstrates a cash machine using a biometric security system to read the user’s fingers during a press conference in Tokyo in 2005.

Taking the idea of a cashless society to a new level, the Japanese company has said it will try out a way to let customers pay simply by scanning their finger.
Considering all the companies that have already (or almost) jumped on the cashless bandwagon, it follows logic that another duo of Japanese firms are bringing their own biometric payment system to the forefront. Reportedly, Hitachi and JCB Co. Ltd. are working hand in hand (ahem) to develop a system that would “identify the veins on a person’s finger” in order to sync with their credit card or bank data and complete a purchase

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