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• Over 15 years working with commercial check cashers helping them reduce risk and increase profits, has proven:.
• Most check cashers today do this by faxing information to check cashers near them. ...   The Internet and the National Check Casher Database (NCCD) now make sharing and using this information possible. ...
• The Commercial Check Cashing and Bill Pay business has entered the 21st century with CashItUSA.
• Cash IT USA is the first distributed software product developed for independent commercial check cashers and bill pay companies. ...
• Why you need CashItUSA and the National Check Casher Database (NCCD): .
• Customer information is stored and located by fingerprint scan. ...

• Develops biometrics-based security products including a software developer's kit, fingerprint scanners, and a biometric engine for fingerprint identification. ...
• Find out about its fingerprint recognition systems used for identification and verification. With info on its Fingerprint Search Engine Algorithm for developers. ...
• Caters to small and medium-sized businesses with its database and biometric applications including SecureChild, a fingerprint-based attendance system. ...
•   Fingerprint Synthesis | http://www. ...
• Offers demos of its fingerprint synthesis software programs. ...
• Company in Brazil presents Pequi, an open, client/server finger recognition engine that integrates with user's software for fingerprint identification. ...
• Gives product info on its imaging and scanning software including an FBI-certified fingerprint scanning system. ...
• Preview its line of biometric system software that includes fingerprint and eye iris pattern identification software, libraries, and source code. ...
• Check out its various voice recognition software packages that allows users to talk to their computers. ...
•   Secure Check Cashing System | http://www. ...
• Provides biometrics check cashing software and hardware, which captures and processes customers' fingerprints to retrieve their records. ...
• Get the readme file and download this implementation of the WSQ fingerprint compression algorithm that is designed for IBM-type desktop systems. ...
•   WSQ Fingerprint Image Compression | http://www. ...

• Fingerprint May Soon Be .
•   The Kroger stores are using the device to provide positive identification for payroll check cashing, not for actual sales. ... "   Use of the finger image for check cashing at the four pilot Kroger stores is optional, but Huddleston said most customers use it once they understand how it works and that they can get their check cashed faster if they submit to the finger-image scan   The finger-image scanner can easily be used for all point-of-sale transactions, including the use of checks, credit cards and debit cards, according to Biometric Access Corp. ... org/fingerprint. ...   More than 700 units will be installed in stores using biometric fingerprint readers to keep track of 50,000 employees as they clock in and out of work. ...

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• What a pain it is to write a check these days -- all those forms of identification. ...
• We've all been there-standing in the supermarket's check out line, digging for identification to prove we are who we say we are. ...
• In this case, with a scan of a customer's unique fingerprint. ...
• "The biometrics of the fingerprint proves they are who they say they are," says Leroy Smith of Biometric Access Corporation. ...
• The scanner makes a digital image of the fingerprint, measures the distance between unique points on the finger, and then stores those measurements. ...
• "We don't actually store a fingerprint image, we actually store a mathematical template of the fingerprint," says Smith. ...
• At checkout a computer matches your fingerprint to a customer database and then calls up your payment information to finish the purchase. ...
• "It speeds up the checkout process and eliminates a lot of the fraud in the check cashing system," says Huddleston. ...
• For now, the fingerprint scan is being tested in three supermarkets, but developers hope to expand the system to stores nationally. ...

• Typical check fraud losses involve forged signatures or counterfeit checks More than $2 billion worth of check fraud was attempted last year, another 30% increase since 2000. ...
• When you use your credit card in a store, they may spot-check your signature on the back of the card. When cashing a check and you’re not in your bank, a picture identity card is required, but with modern technology, it’s not that difficult to forge such cards. ...
• This includes: fingerprint, retinal and iris scanning, hand geometry, voice patterns, facial recognition are the main techniques. ...
• This helped propel biometrics from an infancy stage of prototype systems such that by the year 2000, face and fingerprint recognition technology matured into commercial systems. Annually fingerprint, image and motion video facial recognition systems etc. ... Failure rates in fingerprint recognition are, for some vendors, close to a tenth of a percent. However not all fingerprint technology manufacturers have such low failure rates. ...
• For banks, Credit Unions, and in public places, ATM machines will be offering new financial services, such as check cashing for those with and without bank accounts. ...
• For time and or attendance reporting fingerprint recognition is the secure and accurate alternative to card-punching systems and time clocks. ...
• Fingerprint, facial geometry, video image, and voice solution prices are more than 50% lower than two years ago. Fingerprint authentication for computer access is $150; single door access systems are less than $900 (example: data center physical access). ...

• "Check fraud remains a large problem for many merchants. ...
• UVIX Corporation will offer merchants BioPay's market-leading check cashing system. The system electronically captures a customer's fingerprint, stores a template of the fingerprint image, and then records check-cashing transactions associated with that person. A customer's negative check-cashing information is stored in a central database and shared between all merchants using the BioPay system. Advanced alert mechanisms warn the clerk of a potential bad check before the transaction is completed, enabling the transaction to be declined before it is processed, saving the store money it may have otherwise lost. ...
• Its biometric systems help businesses substantially reduce fraud and give consumers a convenient, easy way for cashing checks and paying for purchases. ... BioPay's value to consumers and merchants has created the nation's largest commercial electronic fingerprint database. ...

• Cardenas Supermarkets Bring Biometric Check Cashing to Southern California .
• Biometric identification leader BioPay, LLC announced that Cardenas Supermarkets have adopted BioPay’s Paycheck SecureSM to stop check-cashing fraud and drive revenue for its stores throughout southern California, including San Bernardino, Riverside and eastern Los Angeles County. ... Paycheck Secure is the nation’s most popular biometric check cashing system and has been used to process more than one million transactions totaling more than one-half billion dollars.
• CARDENAS SUPERMARKETS BRING BIOMETRIC CHECK CASHING TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
• – November 11, 2002 – Biometric identification leader BioPay, LLC announced that Cardenas Supermarkets have adopted BioPay’s Paycheck Secure to stop check-cashing fraud and drive revenue for its stores throughout southern California, including San Bernardino, Riverside and eastern Los Angeles County. ... Paycheck Secure is the nation’s most popular biometric check cashing system and has been used to process more than one million transactions totaling more than one-half billion dollars.
• “The technology has been rolled out to all our stores and will have a positive impact on our extensive check cashing operations. ...
• Since June, Lopez Supermarkets have increased their check cashing revenue by 23%, enrolled nearly 11,500 customers and cashed nearly 22,000 checks with Paycheck Secure.
• Paycheck Secure is a voluntary system that uses biometrics to track a customer’s check cashing history. ... A customer with a history of positive transactions allows the merchant to cash the check with confidence.
• The check cashing system lets affiliated stores share customer information in real-time. This allows store employees at every location to access a customer’s enrollment information and check transaction history with a fingerprint scan. ...
• Cardenas Supermarkets and Lopez Supermarkets serve predominately Hispanic communities, with each store offering popular check cashing services. Many of their customers are “unbanked” and use the chains’ financial services as a means of cashing payroll checks, paying bills and meeting other monetary needs. ...
• Its biometric systems help businesses substantially reduce fraud and give consumers a convenient, easy way for cashing checks and paying for purchases. ... BioPay's value to consumers and merchants has created the nation’s largest commercial electronic fingerprint database. ...

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• BIO PAY Check Cashing System .
• BioPay Check Cashing System saves money and improves efficiency for banks, merchants and grocery stores by linking check-cashing activities to a consumer's registered fingerprint. ...
• BioPay's system electronically captures a customer's fingerprint, stores a template of the fingerprint image, and then records check-cashing transactions associated with that person. A customer's negative check-cashing information is stored in a central database and shared between all merchants using the BioPay system. Advanced alert mechanisms warn the clerk of a potential bad check before the transaction is completed, enabling the transaction to be declined before it is processed saving the store money it may have otherwise lost.
• Using BioPay Check Cashing System is easy. On initial check presentment, the customer gives the clerk his/her driver's license or other ID for scanning or entry into BioPay's IndivioSM database. ... A repeat customer need only use their fingerprint to complete future transactions.

• WOMAN CHARGED WITH 42 COUNTS IN CHECK FRAUD CASE.
• has filed formal charges against a woman in connection with counterfeit check cashing.
• Banks and repeatedly cashed copies of the same counterfeit check. Each check was cashed for $862. 15 after identification and a right index fingerprint was provided.

• KROGER ADDS BIOPAY’S PAYCHECK SECURE TO THE CHECK CASHING COUNTER.
• Biometric identification leader BioPay, LLC today announced that The Kroger Company, one of the nation’s largest grocery retailers, is using Paycheck Secure(SM) for its check cashing operations in store locations throughout Indiana. Paycheck Secure enables Kroger locations to effectively eliminate check fraud and gives customers a convenient way to cash payroll checks while keeping their personal information secure. KROGER ADDS BIOPAY’S PAYCHECK SECURE TO THE CHECK CASHING COUNTER.
• Biometric System Makes Check Cashing Secure for Kroger and Its Customers Herndon, Va. – December 9, 2002 – Biometric identification leader BioPay, LLC today announced that The Kroger Company, one of the nation’s largest grocery retailers, is using Paycheck Secure(SM) for its check cashing operations in store locations throughout Indiana. Paycheck Secure enables Kroger locations to effectively eliminate check fraud and gives customers a convenient way to cash payroll checks while keeping their personal information secure. ... “Paycheck Secure furthers the positive customer experience by giving consumers a secure option for cashing checks while protecting their identity. ” The Paycheck Secure check cashing system uses biometrics to verify a person’s identity and confirm their check cashing history. If a customer has a negative check cashing history, the clerk can cancel the transaction, saving the store money that would have otherwise been lost on a fraudulent transaction. Paycheck Secure is an ideal way for check cashing customers to secure their identity and keep personal information private. The system lets customers use their fingerprint image for positive identification and to initiate a transaction. ... Kroger expects to offer its customers the convenience of Paycheck Secure at its other high-volume check cashing locations across the country next year. ...
• Its biometric systems help businesses substantially reduce fraud and give consumers a convenient, easy way for cashing checks and paying for purchases. ... BioPay's value to consumers and merchants has created the nation’s largest commercial electronic fingerprint database. ...

• I am here today to talk to you about a solution to one of the nation’s most serious problems, check fraud.
• Annually, the FBI has estimated that check fraud costs American retailers and banks more than $10 billion, and that loss is growing rapidly. While many means for eliminating check fraud by increasing the security of checks themselves, little or nothing has been done about the problem of verifying the identity of persons presenting checks for payment. ...
• Our expertise is in a biometric technology known as Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems or "AFIS. ...
• We have installed fingerprint identification systems and technology that support law enforcement, civil, and commercial customers around the world. At last count, our systems search a collective, worldwide total of nearly 60 million fingerprint records. ...
• We are confident that fingerprint technology like ours can help guarantee the integrity of almost any transaction ¾ whether it involves personal or financial information ¾ while at the same time ensuring that the privacy of the individual is fully protected. ...
• Morpho’s fingerprint biometric technology is now fully mature and has demonstrated its efficiency and reliability in the context of extremely large-scale databases and search demands, factors which are the hallmarks of any commercial biometric applications.
• The Evolution of Fingerprint Biometrics.
• Now, I would like to provide you with a brief background on fingerprints and AFIS technologies, describe how we have applied this technology in support of government and industry, and show you an example of how we have adapted this technology to help retail organizations combat the serious problem of check fraud.
• Research into the application of computers to help law enforcement store and search the ever-increasing number of fingerprint records began in the 1970s when computers became powerful enough to analyze the image of a fingerprint, recognize the distinctive features that made it unique, and quickly search a database to find a matching record. ...
• Fingerprint identification can serve two distinct purposes: First, fingerprints can be used to determine that a person is unique. ...
• Civil Applications of fingerprint biometrics.
• Eleven states have already authorized their public assistance agencies to implement fingerprint identification systems and thereby prevent the payment of duplicate benefits. ...
• Commercial applications of fingerprint biometrics.
• In the context of a commercial transactions, fingerprint technology has several other important advantages. ... And, very important to ensuring that fingerprint biometrics are not misused, it is important to note that because the act of capturing the fingerprint image requires a deliberate and cooperative act that indicates his or her assent ¾ that is, touching the scanner’s sensor surface ¾ fingerprints can not be taken from someone without their explicit consent and cooperation.

• ) into a secure electronic account that is protected by, and accessed with, a unique physical attribute such as a fingerprint. ...
• This solution is particularly well suited for personal check use. ... In handing your paper check to a cashier, you have also handed him or her your name, address, telephone number, bank account number, and often your driver's license number. This information is provided not only to the cashier, but also to an additional five or six people who will handle that check throughout its payment processing cycle. Biometrics, coupled with ACH check processing, enables the check transaction to take place electronically, without all that personal and financial information exposed. ...
• Biometrics can also offer increased protection for check cashing services, whether personal or payroll. By requiring biometric identity verification before allowing a check to be cashed, the possibility of it being presented by anyone other than the intended payee is eliminated. This feature is particularly appealing to employers, banks and check cashing establishments that are unwitting participants and victims in check fraud crimes.

• KROGER ADDS BIOPAY’S PAYCHECK SECURE TO THE CHECK CASHING COUNTER .
• Biometric identification leader BioPay, LLC today announced that The Kroger Company, one of the nation’s largest grocery retailers, is using Paycheck Secure(SM) for its check cashing operations in store locations throughout Indiana. Paycheck Secure enables Kroger locations to effectively eliminate check fraud and gives customers a convenient way to cash payroll checks while keeping their personal information secure.
• KROGER ADDS BIOPAY’S PAYCHECK SECURE TO THE CHECK CASHING COUNTER.
• Biometric System Makes Check Cashing Secure for Kroger and Its Customers.
• – December 9, 2002 – Biometric identification leader BioPay, LLC today announced that The Kroger Company, one of the nation’s largest grocery retailers, is using Paycheck Secure(SM) for its check cashing operations in store locations throughout Indiana. Paycheck Secure enables Kroger locations to effectively eliminate check fraud and gives customers a convenient way to cash payroll checks while keeping their personal information secure. ...
• “Paycheck Secure furthers the positive customer experience by giving consumers a secure option for cashing checks while protecting their identity. ...
• The Paycheck Secure check cashing system uses biometrics to verify a person’s identity and confirm their check cashing history. If a customer has a negative check cashing history, the clerk can cancel the transaction, saving the store money that would have otherwise been lost on a fraudulent transaction. ...
• Paycheck Secure is an ideal way for check cashing customers to secure their identity and keep personal information private. The system lets customers use their fingerprint image for positive identification and to initiate a transaction. ...
• Kroger expects to offer its customers the convenience of Paycheck Secure at its other high-volume check cashing locations across the country next year.
• Its biometric systems help businesses substantially reduce fraud and give consumers a convenient, easy way for cashing checks and paying for purchases. ... BioPay's value to consumers and merchants has created the nation’s largest commercial electronic fingerprint database. ...

• The device can digitally capture a PERSON'S Bio-data; facial image; fingerprint images; and any accompanying documentation, (Driver's Licenses, Passports, or other forms of IDs) for any transaction that requires verification or identification. ...
• BIMS SA-100 prototype is a unique functional based design of LANCOR, with three built-in digital cameras; one silicon chip fingerprint scanner; one impact slip printer; and an embedded specially modified small board computer. The prototype incorporates a specifically developed application for capturing facial, fingerprint, and document images presented by any person, all at the same time with just one click on the keyboard. The capture process is triggered by a reading of clear fingerprint image from the fingerprint scanner. ...
• Business: Biometric Access Control Systems; Video ID Badging Systems; Time & Attendance Management; Payroll Disbursement Card; and Fingerprint ID Record Databases and Repositories. ...
• Law Enforcement: Automated Booking Systems; Jail/Prison Intake and Release Systems; Automation of Criminal Background Checks; and Fingerprint Identification Systems & Network.
• Financial Industries: Identity Verification and Authentication; Digital Recording of Identity at Check Cashing Centers; and Prevention of Identity Frauds.

• Opposable thumbs: More banks use fingerprints to nail check fraud .
• Marilyn Decker's blackened thumb shows her displeasure at being fingerprinted to cash a check at a bank.
• Williams, a victim of check fraud, said she's happy to do what it takes to help the financial community combat criminal activity, even if it means leaving her fingerprint on the back of a check.
• A check was stolen from her mailbox in December, and it took until February for her to recover the money.
• , was frustrated when she tried to cash a check at a SouthTrust Corp. ... She offered the teller a driver's license and credit card to back her claim on the $200 check written by her sister from a SouthTrust account.
• So she drove to her own bank to cash the check.
• As the practice catches on, the industry will reduce the fast-growing losses from check fraud, which now exceed $1 billion a year, she said.
• In 1997, the latest figures available from the bankers association's biennial check fraud survey, forgery was the most common method of fraud. More than half the 288,546 fraud cases logged that year were the result of forgery, including forging a check writer's signature and forging a check endorsement. Checks written on people's accounts were the most common source of check fraud at community and larger, regional and national banks.
• Casinos grocery stores, pawn shops and check cashing outlets also use it.
• Metrobank in Farmington adopted the program about six months ago specifically to curb check fraud.
• Chicago-based Bank One, the fourth-largest bank in the nation, asks non-account holders cashing checks of $100 or more to endorse the check with their right index finger. ...
• The increase comes in part as check counterfeiters get their hands on computers, scanners and color laser printers. ...
• In most cases, banks ask noncustomers to press a thumb on the pad, which has ink that sticks to paper but not to skin, and leave a print on the face of the check. Banks, including Standard Federal in Michigan, say they don't keep a database of fingerprints and examine the marks only if there's a problem with a check.

• Quick-ID comes standard with an enrollment camera and an enrollment fingerprint reader for the enrollment station and just a fingerprint reader for the Verification station. ...
• Airport Attended Security Gates Bank Tellers Check Cashing Outlets Guarded Reception Areas Military and Commercial Hospital Reception Areas Fitness Center and Health Clubs Mobile Law Enforcement Manned Security Posts In an Airport the flyerâ ™s face and fingerprint can be registered on the check-in counter where the data of the personâ ™s passport is entered. ...
• In a Check Cashing outlet the shop owners most effective protection against fraud is to only accept and cash checks from persons known to the shop owner. ... The Qick-ID system from Ringdale allows the registration of face and fingerprint as well as keeping track of checks that have been cashed in the past, a maximum credit line and a black list of issuers of checks that the shop does no longer want to cash. ...
• Once the customer is enrolled, a 30 second process, any trustworthy person can now share the visual information of the customers picture and verify that the person is the person that they say they are in less than 2 seconds, whilst getting all pertinent information on the screen to be ready to process the check. ...
• Fitness Centers can benefit from Quick-ID allowing unattended entry to the fitness area using their fingerprint, the receptionist can verify the identity by looking at the picture registered for the subscriber. ...

• patent (6,270,011 B1) that covers a fingerprint-scanning methodology for credit cards via scanners deployed at the point of sale. The methodology calls for fingerprint templates to be stored in card issuers' databases for reference against finger scans conducted at the time of purchase, and provides for prints to be sent according to a security algorithm. ...
• , has announced it is expanding the integration of its fingerprint-scanning technology with point-of-sale systems from IBM Corp. , the leading supplier of retail check-out systems. ... The system supports both in-lane purchases and payroll-check-cashing functions. ...
• , has signed up the BI-LO LLC grocery chain for the country's largest payroll-check-cashing program authenticated by fingerprint scans. ...
• Star Sets Check Service Pricing, Gets Ready to Begin Processing.

• Banks are also using an invisible ink fingerprint system to identify people cashing checks; the fingerprint would only be used if fraud is alleged for the transaction, and the ink is invisible so you can't lift the fingerprints from the check unless you have the equip to do so (and how hard can that be? I don't know). (How many of my cancelled checks, returned to me each month, have people's fingerprints on them using this new system?) Try cashing a check at a bank where you're not a customer and see if you're asked to put the print on the check. ...

• Nations Bank, like other banks, requires thumbprinting only for non--account--holders cashing checks. ...
• But California businessman Peter Taussig finds the practice so insulting to consumers that he filed suit in small claims court against a bank that asked him for prints to cash a store refund check. ...
• If a check is dishonored, then the bank hands it over to authorities, who can match the prints with those stored in a database of criminals. ...
• ``Using thumbprinting is a tremendous deterrent from having criminals cashing in benefits checks,'' says John Hall, spokesman for the American Bankers Association. ...
• They leave a black mark on the check but not on the fingers. ...
• But John Young, a customer service representative from San Diego, wasn't worried about ink on his fingers when he was printed for writing a check at his local grocer last year. ...
• Southern California Association of Fingerprint Officers.

• Companies like BioPay see your fingerprint as the currency of the future. ...
• BioPay's devices, now installed in six of 11 Knoxville-area Bi-Lo grocery stores, use fingerprint scans to identify patrons who visit the store to cash payroll checks. ...
• One day soon, said BioPay spokeswoman Robyn Porter, customers will be able to pick up dry cleaning, pay for a prescription and buy groceries with only one system of payment - their fingerprint. ...
• "When you go to write a check today in the store, your check is handled by seven different people," Porter said. ...
• The computer capturing the fingerprint creates an algorithm, or numerical identifier, to represent it, not an actual image of the print, she said, "so it's the numbers that are being compared. ...
• Secondly, she said, information gathered at one location is never shared with another unless something illegal, such as fraudulent check cashing, takes place. ...

• Businesses' Fingerprint Policies Stir Controversy.
• , is rolling out a fingerprint system for payroll check cashing to 150 more stores after a test this year in 26 locations.
• -- A handful of businesses in the Washington area allow customers to use a fingerprint and a pass-code number to pay for goods instead of writing a check.
• -- Alpharetta-based ChoicePoint, which makes fingerprint identification software, is a partner in a venture to develop thumbprint-based identity cards that could be used to speed access to airports and the like.
• In Georgia, drivers already give up an index fingerprint to get their licenses. And it is common for banks to require a thumbprint or fingerprint when a consumer who is not a customer wants to cash a check, a practice recommended by the FBI to prevent fraud.
• The bank requires a thumbprint from new customers in order to discourage fraud and to deter crooks if they get their hands on a customer's check and try to cash it, Barnett said.
• If a check is forged using a customer's name and account, Washington Mutual turns the thumbprint of the real customer over to police, she said. ...
• Bi-Lo said its test of a fingerprint system for payroll check sharply reined in fraud.
• Smart said Bi-Lo has not run into opposition from consumers reluctant to provide a fingerprint. The system is easier and faster for payroll check cashers because they no longer have to show identification, she said. ...
• -- requires people cashing checks to place both index fingers on a small electronic scanner. ... Based on the fingerprint, the system approves the check or provides an alert if the consumer has bounced checks or tried to cash fraudulent ones.
• A different BioPay system provides a substitute for writing a check. ...
• BioPay's response is that it does not share even a fingerprint -- which is encrypted in electronic form -- let alone other customer information.

• for secure payroll check-cashing services is being tested by West Des Moines, Iowa-based Hy-Vee Inc. ...
• Five Hy-Vee stores in the Kansas City area installed Biometric's software for processing payroll check-cashing transactions, according to a Biometric news release. Two of the stores also use the system to process personal check-cashing transactions. ...
• Privately held Biometric designs, develops, manufactures and markets fingerprint capture hardware, fingerprint matching software and several applications that use these products. The technology employs fingerprint authentication for retail point-of-sale financial transactions, time and attendance, and personal computer/network .
• Biometric's software employs a process that immediately notifies a store clerk if a presented check or the customer has been involved in a previous "dishonored" transaction. Alerts also may be issued if the system detects signs of check tampering. ...

• , will sell puppies for cash, credit, check — or your thumbprint. Customers at Fox Mill Pets can pay for the doggy in the window by placing a thumb on a fingerprint scanner at the register.
• Biometric devices such as fingerprint readers, retinal scanners and facial recognition systems are often part of high-tech security — in life and in science fiction. ...
• Eleven Food 4 Less stores in the Midwest and three Kroger grocery stores in Texas are trying fingerprint scanners, as are other shops.
• Even though customers are usually asked to provide a second form of ID, the thumbprint reader can be a minute faster than writing a check, biometric companies say. ...
• "It improves productivity, reduces operating costs, improves cash flow and lowers fraud," says Ron Smith, CEO of Biometric Access, which makes fingerprint systems similar to the one at Fox Mill Pets. ...
• They usually must provide their name, phone number and checking account or credit card information, and a fingerprint. ...
• At best, fingerprint scanners are about 98% accurate, Meta's Perkins says. ...
• Southern California grocery chain Cardenas Market used to lose $500,000 a year on check-cashing fraud, says Steve Vallance, general manager. ...
• Last November, Cardenas put biometric fingerprint scanners in its nine stores. ...

• Payroll Corporation knew they had embarked on a revolutionary path when they designed a first-of-its-kind, self-service check cashing kiosk last fall. ...
• And facial biometrics, he adds, "is not intrusive or invasive to the customer like retina scanners or fingerprint readers. ...
• The first camera is positioned to capture a front view of the customer, while the second camera, mounted at a different angle, helps the software form a three dimensional image of the would-be check casher. ...
• On an initial visit, a person who wants to cash a check enters his or her social security number and the amount of the check. The check casher then inserts the check into a slot. ...
• The customer must answer a few "qualifying questions" before being enrolled into the check cashing system, Stinson says, including a previous address, mother's maiden name, and place of birth. ...
• Later, when the customer returns to cash another check, a second picture is taken, reduced to datapoints, and sent to the system for comparison with images on file. ...
• The TrueFace system stores a gallery of up to eight images of each customer who cashes a check. ...
• In effect, the more a person cashes a check, the better the system gets at recognizing that person while safely allowing for slight variations, such as changes in makeup or hair styles. ...

• Fingerprint Checkout.
• I know here in Texas that Kroger and Heb are doing fingerprint assisted quick check out as well. There is actually a digital fingerprint machine in our little towns Brookshire Brothers to go along with your check cashing. ...
• That fingerprint is matched against the one scanned into the database when the customer enrolled in the program. ...
• The industry needs to standardize on two or three technologies, he says, adding that the ones that seem to make the most sense right now are fingerprint and voice scanning because they're less-intrusive and data-intensive compared with iris and facial scanning. ...
• Krogers tried that in mich last year,, with 3 check out lanes, noone went thru them,,so they removed them,, if people refuse to use the technology,, then the stores will pull them,, they dont want to loose miney .
• Just make use the manager of the store you boycott knows why you are not shopping there any longer, or why you are not using the "for you convenience" check out lines. ...
• For example, you may not mind a three-hour security wait each way at the airport if you only fly once a year, but it gets old really fast if you are a business traveler--I'm sure a lot of them would get a fingerprint card if it meant going back to showing up 20-30 minutes before their (probably only domestic) flights. ...
• Come on! They take away my wife's eyeglasses screwdriver, and my nail clippers, for chrisakes, but do they take away your plastic billy club? How about your blackjack (oh, yeah, they will certainly see your sock with the sand in it, right? How about your plastic credit card, filed to a razor's edge? I've NEVER had them check the edge on my credit card. ...
• I've also "accidentally" passed my wife's camera bag over the check point, to avoid it's getting exrayed. ...

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