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Mastercard Will Roll Out Pay-by-Selfie Across Europe

posted by CoolHand on Wednesday October 05 2016, @10:45PM   
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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• Re:Biometrics: Uses and Abuses Re:Biometrics: Uses and Abuses (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Thursday October 06 2016, @02:41AM

  by mhajicek (51) on Thursday October 06 2016, @02:41AM (#410925)

  And if it asks you to blink, you just need some video. Most people blink frequently.

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• Re:Biometrics: Uses and Abuses (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @03:05PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @03:05PM (#411117)

  Or use an image and add the blink electronically. I'm sure that is possible (and it only has to be convincing for the software, not for a human).

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