{"id":416,"date":"2005-02-09T07:28:07","date_gmt":"2005-02-09T13:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=416"},"modified":"2005-02-04T08:28:19","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T14:28:19","slug":"fingerprint-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2005\/02\/09\/fingerprint-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Fingerprint Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right out of science-fiction.<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t even begin to recall all the different science-fiction books and movies that used fingerprints as identification for everything, including monetary transactions.  Well, now it&#8217;s reality.  According to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Supermarket+Let+your+fingers+do+the+paying\/2100-1029_3-5559074.html?part=rss&#038;tag=5559074&#038;subj=news.1029.20\">this news story from Cnet.com<\/a>, Thriftway has setup something called &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.paybytouch.com\/\">Pay By Touch<\/a>&#8221; which lets you pay with your fingerprint.  Of course, there is a setup procedure and this is only good in Thriftway stores, right now, but it&#8217;s still there.  How long before it spreads?  Can Walmart be far behind?  I would bet they will be because the article claims that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.paybytouch.com\/\">Pay By Touch<\/a> now &#8220;makes up 30 percent of Thriftway&#8217;s electronic payments&#8221;.  Cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right out of science-fiction. I can&#8217;t even begin to recall all the different science-fiction books and movies that used fingerprints as identification for everything, including monetary transactions. Well, now it&#8217;s reality. According to this news story from Cnet.com, Thriftway has setup something called &#8220;Pay By Touch&#8221; which lets you pay with your fingerprint. Of course, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,27,14,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crass-commerce","category-fun","category-news-and-current-events","category-science-and-technology","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}