Biometric payment system trialled in supermarket

>"Today's millennial generation now expects a higher level of ease, security and efficiency from the way that we pay," he said.

>have to put your finger in some weird scanner, rather than tapping your card/phone

not efficient/easy

>biometrics, can't be changed

not secure either

>Sthaler says its method is "the safest form of biometrics with no known breaches".

only because it's not in widespread use yet. pretty sure the same could be said of fingerprint/face/retina scans when they were first introduced.

Most places in London accept contactless payments card payments now. Is this really much better?

In 2006 or so I interviewed at a San Francisco startup called Pay By Touch that had this implemented at grocery stores in the US. They have since shuttered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_By_Touch

In India biometric IDs have been issued to all residents. Pretty sure if the present govt and their private sector backers have their way it will be gradually linked to credit/debit cards, if not replace them. It is already linked with your bank accounts, tax returns, subsidised food, cooking gas, mobile numbers and so on. But merely linking the ID number is a far cry from actually authenticating the biometrics, which seems to be seldom done.