Low-tech innovation in the ATM comfort zone

I wonder if banks will use this as an opportunity to charge customers penalty fees for stepping inside the box?

I wouldn't put it past them!

But can she explain the off-side rule?

Sorry, but I've seen many lines to stand behind.  Doesn't even work for the queue at customs. For ATMs all this creates is a corridor for people to walk through between the queue and the ATM. Its just bad manners and the most they will see (assuming you cover your PIN) is the amount you are withdrawing.
(btw- this blog was missing the add comment option!)

Sometimes low-tech solutions can be good, although I suspect in this case that the lowest-tech barrier we could go to is an electric fence. Then the crooks would wear (dry) wetsuits... and then the customers would carry a bucket of water...

I know an easier safer way but I just can't get it out, I rattle on too much it as it is, but..

The whole ATM experience is still so 1940's, except for the odd advert.

This is one solution that IT guys can't say they can do better. Good for her. Now she has to source out the best paint color provider.

I noticed that the lines form a rectangle and because I'm such a tall shoulder surfer, I could stand 'outside the box' and see  someone's business, unless they were a couple of metres tall.

Perhaps a wedge shaped privacy zone, a little wider at the wall end?

I know I'm a stickler, but hey, I don't have a preference on the colour issue, but it probably has to be something that we dont see on footpaths, maybe green or blue could do?

Should I patent that?

Perhaps the Pyramid of Privacy?

'Please be Polite and Place yourself outside the Pyramid of Privacy until the Previous Person completes their Process.'

We could have them at cash registers, with a slightly different crowd control sign -

'Please be Polite and Place yourself outside the Personal Payment Pyramid of Privacy until the Previous Person Pays with their Pin and completes their Purchase Process.'

Apologies, I'm always thinking outside the box to make things better, except in this case, ouside the pyramid of privacy. No abuse please, I know what you're thinking.