MasterCard Says It Will Use Selfies to Replace Passwords
Found on eWEEK on Thursday, 25 February 2016
The credit card company has announced that its customers will soon be able to replace their passwords with a selfie and a fingerprint to verify their identity to make payments online.
Biometric solutions currently in the market include facial recognition and scans of corneas or fingerprints. Checking a customer's heartbeat using wearable technology, such as smartwatches, is also being tested.
That raises the obvious question about what happens with biometric data. If MasterCard stores the facial and fingerprint data of millions of people on their servers, law enforcement will get very interested in it.