[LINK] City launches fingerprint payment program

[Adam Todd]

At 07:57 AM 16/10/2007, Howard Lowndes wrote:
I have had a couple of these for about a year now and neither of them 
have had any call for the chip to be activated as my CC supplier 
informed that the chip was only being used overseas.

>Anyway, I went to one retailer the other day and they had just had 
>their  swipe system replaced (NAB).  The girl first swiped the card 
>and the system read that then required that the card be inserted in 
>the chip reader for further processing.  Natch it failed the second 
>process as the chip was unactivated.
>
>My question is: "Why is it now necessary to go through a two stage process?"

Three stages.

You have to sign a slip of paper yet :)