James Hannah
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/ 11 October 2005

Searching for the holy grail in biometrics

They walk up to an ATM and press their thumbs on the screen. Out spits the cash. Tokyo? No. New York? No. The mountains and jungles of Colombia. It’s one of the few places in the world where banks are using fingerprint biometrics, which verify people’s identities based on their unique physical characteristics.