Airport lockers can re-open -- after being upgraded with biometric readers

Martin Moylan reports on the Transportation Safety Administration's decision to re-open airport lockers -- after they've been updated to include biometric technology that requires travelers to provide a fingerprint to rent and open a locker.

The fingerprint ID system is 99.99 percent accurate, says Smarte Carte. Generally, the rental process goes smoothly, but folks with some gunk on their fingers can have trouble giving clean prints. And in anticipation of potential privacy concerns, Smarte Carte's snazzy $500 electronic lockers do not match customer names, obtainable via credit or debit cards, with prints. Prints are not compared to those of known or suspected terrorists, and the prints are discarded once a rental is concluded, the company says.