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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: 2) by Hairyfeet on Thursday October 06 2016, @03:42AM
Hell you don't even have to take a pic of Alice when she isn't looking because if she is one of that irritants that takes selfies she has plastered the damned things all over the fucking Internet so help yourself.
Ya know there is dumb and there is "WTF were they smoking when they come up with THAT shit?" and I'd say this firmly falls into the latter as anybody with a teeny tiny bit of common sense knows the selfie twats are narcissists and splatter those things to every social media site they possibly can and you are gonna use THAT for a security feature involving large sums of money? Yeah...good luck with that.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @06:11AM
They smoke your privacy and they like it.