ha, I thought it was just a movie trope

I wish. My bank has been trying to get me to do that shit for years when I call in.

"YoUr VoIcE iS yOuR pAsSwOrD" - no, my fucking password is my password, and this voice print shit was an obvious security hole from day 1, which is why I always answered that I didn't consent to their bullshit.

Nope.

Fuck TD. They enabled this horseshit automatically on my account. Surprise, surprise, it didnt work on my voice, even once.

Supposedly they disabled it three times. Guess what else happened? Someone accessed my damn account, because it was their voice linked to my account.

I'll never have a TD account again. Absolute jackasses in terms of account security, that isn't even the only issue I had with them.

When I was complaining about the 10 pieces of paper, each needing a signature and a stamp, just to close one of my bank accounts, the clerk has informed me that some of their procedures has switched to an electronic signature instead. I was pumped! Until he finished the rest of the sentence. By the electronic signature he meant the squigly line, just on a touchscreen.

Some people strive to achieve the pure zen. At that moment I've achieved pure cringe instead.

It's strange though, because that same bank has an excellent API and batch processing available.

My bank uses that and personal info, and I have to be calling from a registered number.

Even ISPs do this where I am. You don't have to utter anything specifically but if they detect your voice being drastically different from what they have on file, they'll lock you out before you even talk to a real person. Not sure how I feel about it tbh

I am guessing they were trying to explain how a large number of banks are using the company PinDrop Security and did a really bad job of it.