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NatWest change to biometric data policy
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You should always delete all that trailing tracking information from links
https://www.natwest.com/support-centre/general-banking-information/general/what-is-biometric.html
Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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I took a look at the link, and was pleased to see that one does not have to use biometric identification, there is always the possibility with them of using a card reader.
Unfortunately, some of the money transfer and savings accounts actually require biometric identification, and - perhaps because a beard covers much of my face - I have failed biometric identification sufficiently often to find it unsatisfactory.
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I have just got the email about this today - SO - are people saying that it is risky to have this facial recognition on our banking Apps - and best to stick with a card reader?
What happens if you already have it set up and cancel it - do they still keep the data/info anyway?
(I have not looked at any links yet)
Thanks
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Don't think anyone (at least on this thread) is saying that the change to the T&C around the use that can be made of your biometric data is a reason of itself to cancel biometric verification.
Most complaints about this system seem to be "it doesn't work", not its possible wider application.
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The "risk" is very minimal, they match your face ID to stored image when doing things like new payees, more secure than a card reader for me
Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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