Why Veins could replace fingerprints (tech)

[katty]

more: http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5129384.ece

November 11, 2008

Why veins could replace fingerprints and retinas as most secure form of IDMike Harvey, Technology Correspondent
Forget fingerprinting. Companies in Europe have begun to roll out an advanced biometric system from Japan that identifies people from the unique patterns of veins inside their fingers.

Finger vein authentication, introduced widely by Japanese banks in the last two years, is claimed to be the fastest and most secure biometric method. Developed by Hitachi, it verifies a person's identity based on the lattice work of minute blood vessels under the skin.

Easydentic Group, a European leader in the biometric industry based in France, has announced that it will be using Hitachi's finger vein security in a range of door access systems for the UK and European markets.

[LWolf]

1. Why does this sort of thing

give me the extreme creeps?

Is it just my innate desire for privacy, or is it a premonition of what kind of use such a tool could be put to by "Big Brother?"

[damntexdem]

3. Efforts to retain privacy may now be in vein.

[LWolf]

7. .

:rofl:

[damntexdem]

2. You're so vein.

You probably think this ID is about you.

[katty]

4. ha good ad campaign

[Politicalboi]

5. It's coming, and there is nothing we can do about it

It will have some good as far as fraud, but for the most part it will be intrusive. We're a people who see things like global warming coming 30 years ago and we still did nothing. It's not like they do it in secret. We see it coming then complain when it gets here.

[texastoast]

6. Do criminals leave vein prints

That would be just weird.