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posted by Fnord666 on Monday January 30 2017, @02:24AM   Printer-friendly
from the thumb's-up dept.

If you thought India's decision to ban 86% of its cash was ambitious, wait until you hear what it may do next.

The head of a government-run policy institute said on Thursday that the country could completely eliminate the need for credit cards, debit cards and ATMs in the next three years by switching to biometric payments. Amitabh Kant said that even electronic payment methods may be "totally redundant" by 2020. Instead, all Indians will need for transactions is their thumb or eye.

"Each one of us in India will be a walking ATM," Kant said at the World Economic Forum in Davos. That would represent "the biggest technological leapfrogging ever in the history of mankind," he added.

Arundhati Bhattacharya, head of the State Bank of India, agreed that such a dramatic shift was possible.

"This is something that's eminently doable," she said, pointing out that nearly 1.1 billion of India's 1.3 billion people have already registered their biometric data under the government's unique identification program.

Source: CNN


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  • (Score: 1) by Demena on Monday January 30 2017, @06:19AM

    by Demena (5637) on Monday January 30 2017, @06:19AM (#460540)

    I asked this of a policeman. He suggested that 'marking' your prints with a Stanley knife would make them unique again. I hope he was drunk.

  • (Score: 2) by Kromagv0 on Monday January 30 2017, @03:08PM

    by Kromagv0 (1825) on Monday January 30 2017, @03:08PM (#460660) Homepage

    You can alter your finger prints as I accidentally found out when I was younger. I had torched off a stuck nut and wasn't paying attention and toughed the still red hot bolt with one of my fingers. On that finger I now have a nice cross hatch pattern made from my original prints and the thread pattern of the red hot bold.

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    • (Score: 1) by Demena on Monday January 30 2017, @10:11PM

      by Demena (5637) on Monday January 30 2017, @10:11PM (#460820)

      I do not think you understood me. Either that or you are being facetious. I have had a knife scar on my finger tip for more than half a century. Nothing abnormal in having mutilated fingerprints.