The article at Fortune is titled Banks Are Using Biometrics to Detect Scammers.
And it has already begun…
A sensor in the branch, located in a port city on the East Coast, had detected unusual heartbeats and body heat patterns from new customers who had come to open an account.
Something was wrong. These “customers” had entered the country days before as human cargo on a ship from Europe. Now a criminal gang was using them to orchestrate financial fraud.
Imagine if retailers start using this – a quickening pulse might indicate a desire to purchase. A car dealer would love this intel.
Would a cloaker be able to thwart such systems? I guess it would be obvious if you were masking your vitals, which would be even more suspicious unless it was widely adopted.
