Biometrics stat of the week

Eight out of 10 Britons would support replacing "chip and PIN" with fingerprint scans or iris recognition if it would boost security, a survey has found.

    Metro, UK

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Biometrics in action

In America more than 3m customers now regularly pay for goods at the supermarket, chemist or convenience store just by scanning their fingers and punching in a personal-identification number (PIN) rather than using credit or debit cards.  Similarly, in Japan more than 2m people now use contactless palm-scanners when they want to withdraw cash from a cash point.  And in the next few months ABN AMRO, a Dutch bank, will be rolling out a new telephone-banking system to its 4m customers that can verify each user's identity using voice analysis.

     The Economist, UK