Biometric Pay By Touch At The Gas Pump
Nov 14th, 2007 by Michael Julson
Gas stations in Colorado and Chicago started accepting Pay by Touch payment using biometric fingerprint scanning. Your fingerprint is associated to a payment method on file through a pre-registration process and allows you to pay for your gas without pulling out your wallet. Pay By Touch, the company providing the solution has been around for 5 years and is based in San Francisco. According to their website, much of their retail sucess has been in grocery with Albertsons, Jewel-Osco, Piggly Wiggly, Lowes Foods, and Harris Teeter.
Articles on the subject:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21576756
http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_4376813
http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/07/14/ddn071407dlm.html
Tags: Biometric, Payment