Nationwide banks on biometrics
Nationwide, the UK's largest remaining building society, last week announced plans to roll out biometric signature capture and verification technology to all its branches in the UK. Work will begin on the installation during the first quarter of 2003.
By embedding biometric signature data into electronic documents, Nationwide hopes to "remove paper from branches and eliminate filing and retrieval systems". A bold ambition, particularly in the banking sector where notarised paper receipts are very much the order of the day...more [The Register]
It's coming, Biometrics will be an every day part of our lives within 10 years. Go and watch Minority Report, they got some things wrong (like plot holes, gapping plot holes - still a good watch, kinda like The Sixth Day), but they got biometrics dead on - it will be everywhere...get used to the idea...mj
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