Beware the finger-scanning cash registers

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Allegedly unstable Wendy’s customers, take note: Cub Foods is testing a payment system in which it can access your checking account by scanning your finger at the register. Now, clearly this is an amazing advance, based on something called biometric data. Still, we’re not feeling that good about it. Maybe it’s just us, but finger-scanning technology conjures up scenes from nightmarish sci-fi movies: Gattaca, for example, in which the drones were ID-ed via blood samples from their fingertips; or the end of The

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