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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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Mastercard Will Roll Out Pay-by-Selfie Across Europe
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @04:21PM
nobody said the answers you gave to the system had to be factually correct
they just need to be consistent
so if you always answer that your mother's maiden name was jane jetson, it works well enough...
(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Friday October 07 2016, @03:09PM
They usually ask a series of "security" questions.
That means you need to remember 5-6 passwords instead of 1.