Fingerprint Payment System’ may Soon Replace Credit Cards

May 13, 2011

Are you afraid that using a credit card for shopping may make you a victim of an ID fraud? Well, now a new technology based on personalised fingerprints is here to address your worries. With the revolutionary new system, which is being introduced in Europe, it will be possible to buy a product by paying through fingerprints.

The so called ‘digiPROOF fingerprint payment’ system is already very popular in Germany.

To pay for the product purchased, a customer will have to press his/her finger or thumb on to a scanner at the till, which acts as a register of customers’ prints and their bank details. The total will then be deducted from the customer’s account.

Toby Wolff who shops at the Edeka supermarket in Rulzheim, South West Germany, twice or thrice a week describes the system as “quick as a flash”. “I always use digiPROOF. It’s good because it’s so fast, and you don’t have to bring your wallet with you,” the Mirror quoted the 22-year-old graphic designer as saying.

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Fingerprint Payment System’ may Soon Replace Credit Cards