Who pays if the person who used the sensor I must put my finger on before me has AIDS, Ebola etc. My lawyer loves this question. The ATM will record the users with a time stamp. I come down ill. Lawyer obtains ATM records. Someone who used the ATM earlier has a serum or blood transmittable disease. Chain of evidence can convince a jury.

albert toppin, San Francisco, USA

Don't forget, that using this at any location is a way to track people: to see where they are, where they go, could they be dangerous in any fashion. This is only the "tip of the iceberg..." The US, at least, has many other methods in compliment with this, to track its own law-abiding citizens...

Jonathan C., Cambridge, MN, US

While nothing is foolproof, the best way for implementation of any technological advancement is to create a specific system unique to each situation wherein the identification cannot be forced or forged -- either business or personal

Patrice, Norwich ct, US

I would much rather use something like this -- very difficult to forge, requires my actual physical presence at the time of scan, and isn't left lying around everywhere -- than fingerprint scanners, which have problems with all of the above.

However, I'm still reluctant to give anyone my biometrics

Emily J., Irvine, CA, USA

This technology has been implemented around the US for some time. In fact Disney World uses it.

Bryan, Denver,

So instead of pinching thier ID pass all I have to do is cut off their finger? GREAT!

Ashloch, Suffolk, UK

Once American joins in on a One World Goverment, they will try to install chips in us to watch our every move. The elite will need to do this to adequately and affordibly keep control of the common people. The chip will store all our information including bank records, medical records etc.

John, Jacksonville, USA

A case of big bro is dead...Long live big brother! Stupid myopic humans! All is vanity..nothing but vanity..until the next "answer" comes along! Hey, why don't they just invent a way to pluck out the heart for scanning before you can access a service? Humans will always find a way around this too

Willo, UK,

Does anyone else get uneasy about getting closer and closer to having no other way to buy, sell, or trade without using some method like this... a governing authority having sole control over its governed? Just wondering.. maybe there's something to that old book that talks of a future like this?

charles, ny, usa

... and God is the proof we need to escape reality. I don't see why making better latches and better keys would threaten freedom or liberty. Liberty ios about who's holding the key, not about breaking the latch.

Diouf, Daytona,

I have been told by a nurse that our palm vein prints are almost totally identical. Blood flows through all our bodies the same way. So why would finger veins work any differently?
Are you sure these companies haven't found a way to number us without us knowing it and consenting to the VeriChip?

Stan Anderson, Edmonton, Canada

Why can't we use this technology at the voting booths? Oh, that's right, it would violate the civil liberties of the illegal and multiple voters in this country.

TonyZ, NYC, USA

I have a disease that is collapsing the veins in my fingers. I wonder how would that be able to work for someone like me who's vein patterns are changing? I don't see how this can work for EVERYONE. Although it's a rare condition, there are others in this world who have the same problem.

Norm, Mpls, USA

This development -- plus the many more such security-targeted biometrical advances that will surely soon come into increasingly widespread use -- is just another mile-marker as we speed toward an increasingly intrusive, control-based future. Imagine its possible uses for us -- and against us.

S. Steinberg, NYC, NY, USA

There is always a way around anything made buy man..we can make it more secure but not GOD proof. Thanks

Erich Kronberger, South Bend,

This seems a natural progression - from fingerprints and sole prints to retinal scans and now vein prints (veinprints.com). The public has accepted the precurser technologies, so why not vein prints? As for privacy in the UK -- what about one video camera for every person in London???

edwards, tucson, usa

oh good lord - PIN number is a redundancy. PIN stands for personal identification number. Saying pin number is saying personal identification number number. Just 'PIN' is fine.

while we're on it, same with ATM machine. ATM stands for automated teller machine... T_T

Carol Eddy, Washington, DC, USA

These stories usually include the "Happy, Happy! Joy, Joy!" part about how NOBODY has ANY PROBLEM AT ALL with this system and that companies are looking far and wide for anyone who has a problem with it, but hasn't found any. I for one would refuse to do business with any company that uses this.

Bob, Chicago, IL, USA

What happens to all those who invested in Fingerprint technology?

Scott Damone, RIchmond,California, USA

I love Big Brother. I love Big Brother...

Winston, Washington,

I would enjoy giving all the middle finger. A perfect use for flipping the bird

Robert Shakerdge, Las Vegas, USA