Soryy can't help ya there but that is kinda wierd to have a machine know everything bout you

Is this ATM in America by any chance?

If so..

Im not an American, but im beginning to understand what the true realities of the United States is likely to be in the near-by future. Retina Scanning, Thumb Scanning, chipped credit cards, voice and facial recognition and etc - will eventually be the road that America takes and its only a very small matter of time before the rest of the world follows in its footsteps.

The technology? its available and ready to implement.

But what does all that mean?

What it means to me at least is that information about you, and every other citizen is likely to be stored allllll over the place. The world that revolves around you, is going to know an awful lot about you, where you are, why your there.

Privacy?

In our day in age, I believe that Privacy will eventually be phased out of rights / law and its replacement, is likely to be better Levels of Protection against terrorism and crime.

I'll place money on it that ATM's are and probably will be an excellent area to begin experimenting and implementing such technologys and it will spread to other applications all in good time.

If it gets to the stage where toilets begin telling in a vocal manner to the average human being that his anal passage requires cleaning while providing advertisments on a pop-up screen for silky smooth toilet paper and all the jollys that come along with it

Thats when I know, its time to pack up and go underground.

About credit card chips: as I think the great Taw once said "Keep some money elsewhere, you don't want to carry too much cache on your chip."

All humor aside, I do not think I would like a machine reading off my personal information while I was at an ATM with a line of people behind me.

Well, if you're worried about eavesdroppers there is a solution. Hypersonic Sound. Essentially it sends a tight "beam" of sound directly at the listener and, presumably, nobody else can hear it. Pretty cool stuff, no doubt.

Ah yes, the ATM that "remembers" your settings and withdrawal amounts. Great. I keep telling you guys that 1984 is coming .

What you should be worried about is the fact that all drive up ATM's have instructions in Braile on them.

Glock36
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lmao

Chipped credit cards/debit cards are here, and it IS better. You have to enter your pin code when paying for stuff. Means no more stealing cards and using them with forged sigs (which is so easy if you wanted to do it, as I have NEVER seen anyone challenged about their sig!). Now you enter your pin into a coded pad. My only problem with this is that they haven't made those pads good enough to prevent others viewing your pin number. We call it Chip and Pin - its useful, and it stores alot more data. You could use it as ID as well . Not all that bad.

As for ATM remembering your transactions? Bah - thats not tough, and nothing new either. It doesn't need a pin for that, it can do it via transaction codes assigned to withdrawls, payins, debits, credits, adjustments, transfers etc. There are tons of different codes, one for every type of immaginable transfer going - including paying in by cash, counter, cash machine - or by head office .
Every transaction you make is monitored for Anti fraud/money laundering already, you just don't know it.

If Retina scanning comes in to help with ID, I have no problem as LONG as its been tested fully to ensure that no damage occurs to your eyes. There is no new information they can store on there that they don't have already - shops like Tesco already know your shopping habits through their reward cards etc - how much you spend, on what and where etc. Thousands of companies around the world have access to your account details - its called paying a bill - and all of them know where you live/your a/c numbers/telephone/email and everything else. Cars are registered to you and more. Your medical records will soon be 'online' for doctors around the country - so what privacy is left apart from personal personal? That would be invasive, but the rest has been going for decades.

*dons foil hat and body suit*

Next thing you know they will have an attitude,reminds you of Maximum Overdrive dosent it?

If you are not aware of it, the NEW tin foil contains millions of nano computers that receive, process and transmit all that stuff to your brain anyway so forget the tin foil.

Glock36
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