Have Your Fingerprints Read From 6 Meters Away

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"A new startup has technology to read fingerprints from up to 6 meters away. IDair currently sells to the military, but they are beta testing it with a chain of 24-hour fitness centers that want to restrict sharing of access cards. IDair also wants to sell this to retail stores and credit card companies as a replacement for physical cards. Lee Tien from the EFF notes that the security of such fingerprint databases is a privacy concern."

http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/06/21/1653202/have-your-fingerprints-read-from-6-meters-away