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Mastercard Will Roll Out Pay-by-Selfie Across Europe

posted by CoolHand on Wednesday October 05 2016, @10:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-privacy-concerns-here dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

MasterCard's "selfie pay" will be coming to Europe next year after trials in the US, Canada and the Netherlands.

The financial services firm is rolling out biometric technologies that will allow European consumers to authenticate their identity without a password, but with a selfie, in order to provide customers with a more convenient method to sign in and a faster checkout process. Security firms view the development as another sign of the mainstream availability of biometric authentication, comparing it to the introduction of TouchID fingerprint authentication technology in the iPhone.

Javvad Malik, security advocate at enterprise security tools firm AlienVault, said that "selfie pay" is seemingly an attempt to bridge the gap between a fully authenticated method, such as chip and PIN – and unauthenticated payments methods such as contactless.

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  • (Score: 2) by broggyr on Wednesday October 05 2016, @11:09PM

    by broggyr (3589) <broggyrNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Wednesday October 05 2016, @11:09PM (#410870)

    I had a tablet that would unlock via facial recognition. It would ask you to blink to be sure it wasn't a photo.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Wednesday October 05 2016, @11:15PM

    by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Wednesday October 05 2016, @11:15PM (#410872)

    ... Because moving picture technology has not been invented yet...

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 05 2016, @11:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 05 2016, @11:34PM (#410874)

    Ever seen those paper books with moving parts or animations made with paper objects? I sure would like to test one against that recognition.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by krishnoid on Thursday October 06 2016, @02:47AM

    by krishnoid (1156) on Thursday October 06 2016, @02:47AM (#410928)

    Pfft, this is the future we're talking about! Now it'll ask you to duckface.