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Similar story here. The company I worked for provided devices which would create and read a topological map of the back someone's right hand.

There were a couple of instances where users would be missing fingers or had deformities that would throw the machine off. In these cases we would have them put their left hand upside down in the device and map that instead.

In cases where there was issues with the original and alt methods we could remove the check altogether (employ would place their hand and it would go through so nothing was suspicious). This only happened once in the hundreds of thousands of people I'd deployed to.

As an aside, this method of tracking users in and out of work was markedly more digestible than reading someone's fingerprints and increased user adoption.

Working in 1st 2nd and 3rd world we heard all kinds of stories from employees not wanting to provide fingerprints from not wanting to be framed for murder to stealing a part of your soul by extracting sacred finger marks (similar story to photos in some cultures).

https://us.allegion.com/en/home/products/categories/biometri...

For sure, but that CCP $ isn't really what is at play here. Given the option to accept local investment vs. foreign in a competition, the entity receiving the cash would be able to make a choice based on their own values.

Anecdotally, British Columbia real estate is actively rejecting Chinese investment on similar grounds.

Not a throwaway here either, just felt strongly enough to make an account and add my $0.02 when I might otherwise lurk.

I believe as you do, that we should explore viewpoints counter to the mainstream and break the echo chamber to expose poor and Illogical thinking wherever it presents.

I imagine MLK would be appalled by the weak, hollow, pandering which is outlined here.