Poland to be first in Europe to have biometric bank machines

Going through this article the past few days now. The only think that keeps crossing my mind is, Now instead of just stealing cards, they will also be stealing fingers to top it all off.
Do they really think a thief isn't a thief?

clipped from www.canada.com WARSAW - Poland's co-operative BPS SA bank claimed Tuesday to be the first in Europe to install a biometric cash point allowing its clients to use their fingertips rather than a bank card to withdraw money. "Our bank is the first in Europe to provide its clients with a new means to secure transactions to complement the secret code of their banking card," BPS SA Bank vice-president Krzysztof Jagielski told reporters Tuesday. "Thanks to a system which scans blood vessels in fingers, they can withdraw cash from a bank machine," he said of a new BPS cash point installed in the capital Warsaw. Based on "Finger Vein" technology developed by Japanese technology giant Hitachi, the bank machine which scans the unique network of minute veins in fingertips was developed by Wincor Nixdorf, a leading IT provider for retailers and retail banking. BPS said it would install three to four of the new biometric machines in Warsaw by the end of the year,

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