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Money at Your Fingertips: Supermarket Tests Biometric Payments By Scanning Fingerprints Instead of Credit Cards

Description:Money at your fingertips -- a French supermarket chain tests the biometric payment system on a group of 1500 volunteers in the north of France, by scanning fingerprints instead of credit cards. A supermarket in northern France is testing a system of biometric payment in an attempt to make grocery shopping a lot easier. In a pilot operation by a supermarket chain in Villeneuve d'Asq on Tuesday (October 23) on a 1500-strong control group, customers can make purchases by swiping their fingers on (1:09)

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