Would you be happy to have your eye or fingerprint scanned to prove your identity?

Technology such as iris scans proved significantly more popular than pin codes and passwords. Photo / Richard Robinson

Opinion

Eighty-one per cent of New Zealanders are happy to use fingerprint scans to prove their identity and 68 per cent are willing to have their eyes scanned.

The figures - from the Unisys Security Index survey issued today by information technology company Unisys - show that more than half of participants fear identity theft.

Police statistics show that in the year to June 2008 there were 1100 misuses of identity involving almost 500 fictional and genuine identities - figures police say are a "fraction" of what is really going on.

Would you be happy to have your eye or fingerprint scanned to prove your identity? Here is the latest selection of Your Views: