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The Eye-Scanning ATM is Here

posted by janrinok on Wednesday October 28 2015, @07:38AM   
from the point-of-view dept.

fliptop writes:

Citigroup is testing two concept ATMs from Diebold that will scan a customer's eyes using their cell phone:

The first concept, dubbed "Irving", uses the customer's phone camera to scan their iris instead of having them type in their personal ID number. Diebold estimates that the cash withdrawal process could be shortened to just 10 seconds with this method. The second concept, known as "Janus", is a double-sided ATM that also does away with the card reader. Instead, it can email or text receipts to the user.

Despite growing demand, Citigroup doesn't appear to be in that much of a hurry:

"Larger players sometimes like to wait on the sidelines a little longer to see if a product has merit before investing in it," Javelin analyst Daniel Van Dyk told the WSJ.

The company's reticence is in part due to questions about whether the general banking public is willing, or even able, to submit to regular biometric scans in order to access their hard-earned cash.

Regardless, companies like Citigroup are in the proverbial catbird seat since young people think national banks offer the best mobile services.

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Original Submission

• Fuck no Fuck no (Score: 3, Insightful) by mojo chan on Wednesday October 28 2015, @08:30AM

  by mojo chan (266) on Wednesday October 28 2015, @08:30AM (#255481)

  I'm not pairing my phone to some shitty Diebold ATM just to do an iris scan.

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• Re:Fuck no Re:Fuck no (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday October 28 2015, @05:53PM

  by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday October 28 2015, @05:53PM (#255719) Journal

  I'm not pairing my phone to some shitty Diebold ATM just to do an iris scan.
   
  It does work. It's just that whenever you make a withdrawal you also vote Republican for President. That's a feature, not a bug.

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  • Diebold (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 28 2015, @11:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 28 2015, @11:06PM (#255789)

    Yup. This would be a good time to mention that Diebold made highly-insecure Windoze-based voting machines. [xkcd.com]

    ...and, if the thingie was part of -their- gear, some movies spring to mind.
    There's "Minority Report" with the eyeball transplant. {gewg_ gets queezy}
    There's the "I do only eyes" line from "Blade Runner".
    There's the handheld peep show [google.com] from "Oklahoma!".

    -- gewg_

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