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1997-12-01 - Re: Big Brother Is Watching ATMs

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From: Paul Pomes <ppomes@Qualcomm.com>
To: Vin McLellan <vin@shore.net>
Message Hash: 00d4f8bd7361d1fc10d2c2070595dfb4acf35f1955d9cc7aeb35c28446e1ad7f
Message ID: <2367.881005036@zelkova.qualcomm.com>
Reply To: <v03007801b0a877592509@[198.115.179.81]>
UTC Datetime: 1997-12-01 20:07:43 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 04:07:43 +0800

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From: Paul Pomes <ppomes@Qualcomm.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 04:07:43 +0800
To: Vin McLellan <vin@shore.net>
Subject: Re: Big Brother Is Watching ATMs
In-Reply-To: <v03007801b0a877592509@[198.115.179.81]>
Message-ID: <2367.881005036@zelkova.qualcomm.com>
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At 10:50 EST on Monday, December 1, 1997, Vin McLellan wrote:

|G'day Jonathan,
|
|	Could you please identify this "bank card company" by name, card,
|nation, etc. ?

You *could* read the newspaper...

/pbp
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Body Parts May Become a Way To Identify ATM Customers

By GORDON FAIRCLOUGH 
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Thomas J. Drury walks up to the automated-teller machine in his suburban
office and swipes his bank card. Instead of punching in a secret code,
however, he stares straight ahead. The machine verifies his identity by
looking at his eyes.

If Mr. Drury, chief executive officer of Sensar Corp., and his colleagues
have their way, this eye-scanning technology will become standard equipment
on ATMs around the world. It is being tested by NCR Corp. and Citicorp,
among others.

[...]

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