Well I banked with Barclays for many a year, the choice they made me make was: live with the hassle (glad it wasn't a hassle for you, it is for me) or move banks. Moving banks is also a hassle. So whichever way you look at it, they forced me to do something I didn't want to have to do.
FWIW I also have severe doubts about the actual benefit such a system brings, especially when you weigh up the cost both economically and environmentally that these devices command. Plus they do nothing to protect you from people stealing your card details and buying things online, which - in my naive mind - is a much bigger risk.
I'm generally a supporter of security methods brought in, for example at airports (to some degree). However, where these go too far, someone needs to stand up and point out what's gone wrong.
On the one hand, I've not got a problem with the X-ray scanners at airports. On the other, if we have to be seen naked when we travel, perhaps the terrorists have already won?
