'RFID Contactless Payment: Too Much Information'

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Despite a savings from RFID-enabled inventory control and claims last year of high success rates, retailer Tesco has been having problems with their RFID trials. The foremost of this has been from customer concerns, as well as getting agreement with..

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Comment #1 John (64.76.36.37) -

As well this article says: "In their eyes, a fingerprint scan in the hands of the wrong person definitely constitutes that. So does someone intercepting info from their RFID smartcard. If a government's employees cannot even keep important laptops full of data out of the hands of thieves, they feel, what's to say that a retailer's employees won't steal information, or facilitate, the theft of data collected with RFID and/or biometrics?"

My question is this: Does not the routine scanning of people's fingerprints and presumably the storage of a digital representation of them in a database, open the door to that "digital image of a fingerprint" being used to gain access to a DIFFERENT system that makes use of digitized finger prints?

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