MasterCard will approve purchases by scanning your face
Found on CNN on Friday, 03 July 2015
"The new generation, which is into selfies ... I think they'll find it cool. They'll embrace it," said Ajay Bhalla, who's in charge of coming up with innovative solutions for MasterCard's security challenges.
If you go with facial recognition, you stare at the phone -- blink once -- and you're done. MasterCard's security researchers decided blinking is the best way to prevent a thief from just holding up a picture of you and fooling the system.
So you hold up a picture, with the eyes cut out and move a skin-colored paper with the eyes glued onto it behind it. Pretty close to blinking. Just because it is "cool" it is not a good idea. Especially not for financial transactions.