New "Sign In/Out" system at work

The_ICT_Engineer

paddyrg wrote: »

Gummy bear, microwave, and you can borrow someone else's fingerprint ;-)

Who been watching CSI.

scooby088

Can't see the problem as It does stop the fraud of clocking in and out for someone.

CKhalvashi

The_ICT_Engineer wrote: »

The added advantage being you be unlikely to leave your finger at home, as you could with a passkey

Which is why mine is always either round my neck or round the mirror of the car.

It may sound harsh, but it's a good system of finding who's in if you need them. We don't use them, I despise them, but if this was happening on a regular basis (I know who's doing it 9/10 times, as we have ANPR in the car park) then we would consider implementing it.

CK

CK

Firefox1975

chokolat2 wrote: »

Hi everyone.

Not sure if this is the correct forum for this, sorry if not, but here goes.

Recently at work we had a new system installed for signing in and out - called Watson. It's basically a computer located just as you walk in, into which you enter your ID number then scan your finger!
(we all had to "register" our fingerprints the other day on it).

Can private companies actually do this? How do I know they are storing this safely?

I am sure I thought only the police or such as Home Office were allowed by law..

Thank you.

Which Hilton hotel do you work for?

The_Pedant

How do I know they are storing this safely

Most such systems do not store the fingerprint itself but only store the result of a mathematical calculation upon it.

Read fingerprint, run a calculation on it to get a large number out the other end, and compare this against the stored value in the system.

Savvy_Sue

It's been suggested for us too, I'm quite certain it wouldn't be suggested if it wasn't legal. Also it is just one fingerprint rather than a full set, I'm really not sure what could be done with that.

scooby088

How this system was explained to me was, when the finger print is scanned onto the system it matches only 5 points on the finger/thumb and as fingerprints are unique to one person cannot be copied.

It is perfectly legal as a way of clocking into work.