A German supermarket is going to launch this fingerprint billing service after a successful trial period.

Registered shoppers can pay by placing their finger on a checkout scanner, avoiding the need for cash or payment cards.

Obviously you will have to submit your fingerprints and bank details first.

Opinions on this?

It sounds like more Big Brother to me. I'm not totally convinced that this good way of keeping your money safe. It's currently in the news about the flaws in the new chip and pin systems.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4344279.stm

Not sure to be honest. I mean yeah we hear about the big brother watching us thing all the time, but the less money people are walking around with the less likely you are to be mugged. When carrying home shopping and having your hands occupied some people who put their money in easy to reach places can just be picked at random.

I think it may be a step to far to start removing fingers. What is needed throughout the uk is optical scanning. Yeah it might cost a bomb to install but it cant cost as much as people lose to thieves and the like.

All in all if they are going to be big brother to us we have little say in the long run if it happens or not, they are in power and we hardly count as the lead up to the war clearly showed us. My advice is find the good in these big brother like initiatives and just live with it, that or stress yourself out lol.

My 2 cents worth but id like to hear other peoples opinions on more digital forms of commerce.

Originally posted by weazel05
I think it may be a step to far to start removing fingers.

That would probably be the next crime wave; cutting off fingers to pay for a weeks groceries! :gag: :gag:

K x

I like the idea from a convenience standpoint, but I'm just not comfortable with a supermarket having that much information about me.