Quote Originally Posted by Citizen's Nephew View Post
Seriously great idea. That would be amazing. I use my fingerprint option as well as face and voice recognition all the time for all tech every day. It makes my life so much easier.
Slight problem with that....fingerprints don't store information. Plus, having done a fair bit of building work in the garden, my fingerprints are non existent (to the point where they are no longer recognisable on my phone after several reset attempts). PIN it is for now.
We used to pay for food using fingerprint technology at work. A) the fingerprint recognition device had to be cleaned after every user (pre Covid) slowing down payments B) it was easy to sneak in price rises without you noticing C) you had to queue to add money to your account and it was easy to get caught out with no positive balance left to pay with. Chances are that had been superceded by online payments now, I hope. Chips are the way forward. Quicker than fingerprints and can store much more data. Never lose your passport/ST/airline/train/gig ticket etc again.