Retailers Experiment with Biometric Payment to Speed Up Service and Prevent Fraud,

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12 September 2006 at 10:19 a.m. ET

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http://www.insidearm.com/news/00003356-retailers-experiment-with-biometric-payme/

By Ellen McCarthy, The Washington Post

Three or four days a week, Darren Hiers gets lunch at a Sterling convenience store near the car dealership where he works. He grabs a chicken sandwich and a soda and heads to the checkout counter, where a little gadget scans his index finger and instantly deducts the money from his checking account.

Hiers doesn’t have to pull out his wallet to buy lunch — and if it were up to him, he’d never have to write a check or swipe a credit card again.

The finger scan used at the shop in Sterling, known as a biometric payment system and made by a Herndon firm, is just starting to be installed at convenience stores and supermarket chains around the country, another step in a revolution that is turning the human body into the ultimate identification card.

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Retailers Experiment with Biometric Payment to Speed Up Service and Prevent Fraud,

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