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> There’s loads of value in these new biometrics

For consumers, not so much. (consumers are already protected from fraudulent charges, and decreases in fraud will not pay off monetarily for them).

the cost of that protection is passed over to the consumers one way or the other, I'm sure

Costs of ubiquitous surveillance will be passed too, as it already is, in a more insidious and harder to track way.