Peter Craik

Blyth, Northumberland

Managing Director

Some UK banks have already started to look at the use of biometrics. Fingerprints are immediately rejected as the banks know they cannot guarantee the provacy of such a database....the police would be far too keen to acquire such a fingerprint database and, despite the banks' best intentions to maintain the integrity of their database, they are under no illusions that they would be forced to comply with any subpoena issued by a legal body which requests this database.
The best biometric solution which provides security and a continuation of the general public's traditional means of acceptance of, agreement to, etc is electronic handwritten biometric signatures...electronic handwritten signatures are, quite simply, an extension of the current paper-based system, easily implemented and accepted by any customer base. Sadly, this technology is too often ignored by media such as silicon.com when biometrics are discussed.