Biometrics For The Greater Good :: Symblogogy

by Edmund Jenks | May 10, 2007 at 04:56 am
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Pay By Touch ID Delivers Discounts, Rewards Recognition, Credit, & More


Consumer services has become a pretty arduous process over the years.


In order for the average consumer to take advantage of the systems and processes that support loyal and local shopping, one had to scan the local paper for coupons and clip them, carry a host of store issued loyalty verification instruments (key fobs, cards, “speedpass” RFID tags, & etc.), then get out and shop … Oh! … and don’t forget the wallet.


Wouldn’t it be nice to be recognized as if all of the stores knew every shopper by name, you know ... as if one were living in an idealized small town in “RFD” America?


One would leave the house with a list of things to buy and that’s it! No coupons and the time invested to collect them, no store cards through which one qualifies for an additional discount off of the purchase, and no wallet to carry cash and credit card by which to pay for the items one needed.


This world view scenario is available here and now and it is a world envisioned by Pay By Touch that utilizes fingerprint biometrics for the greater good!


SmartShop Express station aids in converting customers to the benefits of the Pay By Touch process.


Excerpts from the Pay By Touch website and press releases –


Pay By Touch ID Delivers Discounts, Rewards Recognition, Credit, & More


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Jordan Yerman
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at 05:45 on May 10th, 2007

Edmund, your articles always remind me of cool sci-fi films, not becasue they're fantastical, but because they hold a mirror up to modern society and nudge us into having a quick glance... for example, Gattaca, in which groups and individuals game the system by using fake fingerprints.

Or, closer to home, a story a friend told me years ago...

Her dad was on a long-distance motorcycle trip in the 1960's (I'm pretty sure it was the 1960's), and he and his friends would camp on the beach at night, handcuffing their ankles to the bikes to prevent theft. However, one night, some dudes ran up and hacked his and one of his friends' left feet off and made off with the bikes.

I'll keep carrying a wallet! 

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