"Dispel Mark of Beast Phobia", replace cards with biometrics, 100 million users, pilot launched

USGoverment (Link is PDF File) ^

[chance33_98]

Summary of slides in PDF file, which can be read (or saved by right clicking) on this Link

Large Scale

• Goal of 100-million domestic users
  
  Biometric
  
• Fingerprint-based (price/performance, mechanical footprint, and high user acceptance)
  
• Personal Search Code used to basket users Point of Sale
  
• Open system (biometric algorithms & sensors)
  
• High transaction volume
  
• Establish regional hubs with optional in-store servers
  
  Account data
  
• Credit, Debit, Check/ACH, Rewards/Account info
  
• Count the cards in your wallet…
  
  Speed
  
• Must be fast
  Target: 2 seconds, front-to-back
  Easy to remember personal search code
  Focus of Environments
  
• Multi-Lane Retail
  Speed, though this won’t be the limiting factor
  Rewards, new payment options, check cashing validation, age verification, stored
• value/gift cards, …
  
• Quick-Service Restaurant
  Speed is the primary concern
  New payment options, rewards hold value
  Account Updating
  -Account information
  -Biometric information
  -Ability to change your personal search code
  New or augmented current hardware
  
• Sensors, Algorithms
  
• Modes- Iris, facial, voice, etc.
  Will require multi-modal updating terminals
  
  

  Phase 1 (pilots)
  

• Fast-food restaurants: 4 in Fresno, CA and 1 in Sacramento, CA
  
• Video rental chain: 1 in Dallas, TX
  
• Multi-lane retail: 1 in Oakland, NJ + others
  
• Pharmaceutical retailers: locations not yet chosen
  Example: A single QSR in Fresno
  
• Consumer Enrollment
  Enrollees must be at least 18 years of age and have a valid ID card and credit or debit card
  Potential consumers handed a small informational pamphlet
  Touch screen kiosk in restaurant
  
• open from ~8am to ~1pm and ~4pm to ~8pm seven days per week
  Enticed with a free hamburger and a weekly sweepstakes
  Right index is primary (alternatives are index, thumb, middle from either hand)
  
• Consumer POS Use
  2 in-store lanes using Verifone Everest Plus and Omni 3200v Real World Example: A single QSR in Fresno
  
• Preliminary First Month Performance Numbers
  Over 500 successful enrollments
  Over 500 successful purchases
  False Accepts at POS: None observed!
  False Rejects at POS: (these are preliminary numbers)
  
• ~93% successful purchase rate for un
• trained users
  Initial high FRR due to bad finger placement (we are continually improving our training to improve FRR)
  Expect performance to improve to at least ~99% as consumers become familiar with the technology as was observed in our VISA pilot
  Failure To Enroll (goats): 2 elderly people
  
• Improving sensor and algorithm technology will help this
  Age of successful enrollees: 18 to 80+ years of age
  

  Only 1 un-enrollment
  

• Lady’s husband was convinced this was the “Mark of the Beast”, and made her un-enroll
  
  

  Credit/account and other personal information use concerns
  

• Must continue to educate the public on how biometric technology works to dispel the “Mark of the Beast” phobia
  Credit cards faced exactly the public phobias when they were first tested!

[DBtoo]

There's too much invasion of privacy happening at a real fast pace. I don't like it.

[chance33_98]

I have no bank accounts or credit cards.

Understand that, was there for awhile myself. But if an employer pays by check then you have to get it cashed somehow, and if it becomes the norm then check cashing places will implement them.

Even then they will do what they do now at grocery stores, jack up prices high but give discounts to people who use the card - only soon it will be use your fingerprint. Just look at the case I posted from NY - They could not get welfare without it. Get laid off in a tough economy? No money unless you do it their way.

I am with you though, I still use cash most of the time (and I work for a bank). I like the ease of being able to pay bills online - but I also like the choice to pay anyway I want.

I have a bunch of downloaded pdf's from conferences and such - it is going to be here en masse before we know it.

[chance33_98]

There's too much invasion of privacy happening at a real fast pace. I don't like it.

Imagine how the insurance companies could use this info. You ate at McDonald's three times last month, bought oreos and other junk food, etc. Not to mention all the other ways that information could be used to box you in.

[chance33_98]

Ping!

[Maelstrom]

bump

[xzins]

bio-metric ID technology.

Notice last slide after you go to link. It says "dispel mark of beast phobia." Interesting.

Does anyone know how to copy/paste those acrobat pdf files?

[chance33_98]

I was able to copy and paste the text, the images will have to wait until I am home and I can upload them to my server.

[rintense]

Scary stuff indeed.

[MissAmericanPie]

"Must continue to educate the public on how biometric technology works to dispel the “Mark of the Beast” phobia"

Yeah, let's dispel that phobia, hahahaha. This is coming for sure, it will be forced on everyone, like illegal immigration. After everyone is chipped, it becomes a simple matter for a dictator to demand a show of your devotion to him by taking his mark and if you don't, your chip is turned off, you can't even buy gasoline, pay your property taxes, you lose it all, all except the most important thing.

I can already tell you what one of the selling points will be, you can't vote in an American election if your an illegal, because the proper ok to vote won't be on their chip. It will be seen as a good thing to Republicans for sure, it will be a lame answer to sovereignty, and leave the illusion of citizenship remaining.

The thing is, you don't know how long after your chipped that this dictator is going to show up, five years twenty? This really needs to be fought hard here in America.

[chance33_98]

you can't vote in an American election

They are already working on a schema for voting machines to use them to identify people. Will have to dig up my articles on that when I am not at work (most my bookmarks are at home).

[MissAmericanPie]

"Proverbs 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."

I think today we call this "Unintended Consequences", but the end thereof are the ways of death.

[chance33_98]

Ping to ya :)

[chance33_98]

Bump for discussion.

[chance33_98]

Does anyone know how to copy/paste those acrobat pdf files?

I am finally home and should have those online late tonight as jpg's. Will post a few here with a link to the rest at my web site.

[lonewacko_dot_com]

"It could very well be a prelude or desensatization process needed before the Mark"

Like it says in the PDF, if you sign up for their service you get a free hamburger!

Make sure to get a super-sized meal when they want to give you your barcode.

[ApesForEvolution]

I agree, this is incrementalism.

Funny, I was talking 'shop' the other day with a CEO of another firm and he said that a 'chip' could be so small that it could be administered...via a vaccination!

[Thinkin' Gal]

Even then they will do what they do now at grocery stores, jack up prices high but give discounts to people who use the card

I'm probably one of the few people left around here without one of those grocery tags hanging off of my keychain. About twice a year I'll venture into a big supermarket for a specialty item. It is my observation that they don't offer 'discounts' with the card, but rather gouge the heck out of you if you don't have the card. Produce, for example, can be double the price w/o the stupid card. Now some people will use fake information to get cards, but I prefer to avoid these stores. It'll be increasingly harder to do just that.

[jettester]

The latest version of this technology senses the difference between a fake finger (i.e. made of silicon) and a real one. Everyone has a small current that flows through their bodies and a "connected" finger is required to make the circuit read the print. Early versions of these devices used a form of "copy machine" imaging that could easily be defeated through the oils left on the glass after lifting your finger away.

[MoGalahad]

The 'Mark of the Beast'? Are all such decisions considered a 'phobia' if they don't meet with governments approval?