Reply to post: Re: Hygiene concerns

Mastercard launches card that replaces PIN with fingerprint sensor

sjmurdoch

Re: Hygiene concerns

Studies of customer perception of biometrics show that hygiene concerns are a significant reason for rejecting fingerprint recognition systems, particularly in Japan. That's one of the reasons that finger-vein is more widely adopted there. See http://www.hitachi.eu/veinid/documents/veinidwhitepaper.pdf

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