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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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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 5, Insightful) by edIII on Thursday October 06 2016, @12:23AM
Yeah, that's exactly what we fucking need. Master Card with all of your transaction data, your biometric data, and pictures of the environment you're in, along with everyone else there. Should we also send our diaries to Master Card? Oh wait, they just need to pay Facebook for that! LOL
How about we move to systemic privacy instead of systemic privacy invasion?
I will not adjust to this future well, and will start destroying the equipment that takes away my privacy so forcefully.
That and selfies are so fucking stupid and annoying, I'm beside myself on why anyone thought they had security value. Facial recognition technology has been fooled with pictures and this would only result in mass information leakage, not actual increases in security.
Seriously. Somebody will bypass this system by pulling a Facebook photo from the Internet and passing it into the security app as if it came from the camera. If regular people have access to base tech for the readers (smartphones), then I can go into a Starbucks/Whole Foods and start cataloguing the rich folks to steal from later.
Unless the identifying pieces of information are contained in "wet storage" or tamper resistant tech like chip & pin, the attackers have access to the information that allegedly would only authenticate you.
Tech like this falls under the category of too-stupid-too-work-but-stupid-enough-to-sell.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.