November 17, 2006
Consumers Want Fingerprint Verification?
According to a Harris Interactive survey, 72% of 2000 people surveyed seem to indicate that fingerprint scans at ATM/ debit machines would make them feel more secure. I have a hard time believing this, and Evan Schuman at Storefront Backtalk says there are reasons to be suspicious of such data because of the way that a question about biometrics was worded.
Fingerprinting still and probably always will have connotations of being arrested, despite the fact that some employers expect it. I still believe that if biometric authentication has to be used for various reasons, with or without RFID, that consumers would rather it be something like voice recognition. Though that has a number of technical issues that need to be resolved, including its usability in public. On the other hand, other recent surveys in other countries suggest that younger people would be all for identification via palm vein scans and even from implanted radio frequency chips.
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