In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "R.A. Hettinga" writes: >At 12:26 PM -0400 7/13/05, Perry E. Metzger wrote: >>Why do banks not collect simple biometric information like photographs >>of their customers yet? > >Some do. > >Cambridge Trust puts your picture on the back of your VISA card, for >instance. They have for more than a decade, maybe even two. >
One New York bank -- long since absorbed into some megabank -- did the same thing about 30 years ago. They gave up -- it was expensive then, and may not have solved any real problems. (Possibly, it simply didn't fit their real purpose of attracting more customers.) --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]