A study from the Federal Trade Commission has found insufficient evidence that installing electronic alarm systems at ATMs would do much to prevent or deter crime at the cash machines.
Congress mandated the commission produce the Report On Emergency Technology For Use With ATMs as part of the CARD Act passed last year. The study found that although several technology companies offer different approaches that would enable ATM users to immediately and secretly notify police if they were in trouble at the machine, those devices have not been widely deployed.
"Despite the unavailability of the data that would be necessary to conduct the study mandated by the act, the preponderance of the extant anecdotal evidence suggests that emergency-PIN technologies likely would not have a large impact on ATM crime," the report said.
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