While I don’t think that a biometric hand scanner is the mark of the beast.....It was dumb of the company to insist on it’s use after the complaint by the employee.
There’s a number pad there for use of a pin if necessary.
Many hospitals across the country, including my former employer, are using palm scanning technology for registration “verification.” I set up the system, and I can tell you that one week after the system was installed and testing complete, a “government agency” showed up at our datacenter to install a secured server rack full of servers and switches. We were instructed that no one had access to the rack, period.
This is growing.
Theres not always a keypad. There was no number pad to key a pin in where my wife used to work. It was the hand or nothing. She left for other reasons. To be “safe” I guess he could have used the left hand. Its the right hand or the forehead that Revelation speaks of. He must not have wanted to take a chance.
I think the issue was that the company stored his biometric data. I could see many people, religious and agnostic alike having a problem with this.