Discover Card testing fingertip reader

  

November 26, 2012 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- Some credit card users will soon be able to make purchases with the touch of their fingertip.

Discover is testing a new system that uses a fingertip reader to complete a transaction.

A card user's index fingerprint is assigned a number used to buy products.

Discover employees are testing the system.

There is no word on when it might be rolled out.

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