I'll put it bluntly. I absolutely hate selfie sticks. I can barely tolerate selfies as well, but my teacher calls me a 'living anac...
I'll put it bluntly. I absolutely hate selfie sticks. I can barely tolerate selfies as well, but my teacher calls me a 'living anachronism', so who am I to talk?
But today selfies, snapchats and all their associated internet oddities are becoming commonplace as we move forward into the amazing age of holograms, heads up displays and other scary things that may or may not cause a robot revolution.
It seems like MasterCard is catching on too, because they've introduced a new way to verify your payments: selfies. Actually, that sounds a little bit harder to break than stealing your pin. Potential thieves would have to mimic the entire appearance of the card holder, which is pretty difficult when you've just lifted their wallet and walked off with nothing but maybe their driver's license.
Fun fact: Google says that youth as a collaborative takes over 100 million selfies a day. How's that for ego?
"You can choose to use your fingerprint or your face - you tap it, the transaction is okayed (sic) and you're done." - Ajay Bhalla, MasterCard Chief Product Security Officer
And if taking a selfie at the dinner table isn't enough to foot the bill, you're required to blink when prompted to stop spoofers holding up a picture of you, to take a picture of you. How fascinating.
This trial is currently only available to certain US citizens, and is not entirely bulletproof. MasterCard is also experimenting with things like voice recognition and heartbeat monitoring to authorise transactions.
It seems like MasterCard is catching on too, because they've introduced a new way to verify your payments: selfies. Actually, that sounds a little bit harder to break than stealing your pin. Potential thieves would have to mimic the entire appearance of the card holder, which is pretty difficult when you've just lifted their wallet and walked off with nothing but maybe their driver's license.
Fun fact: Google says that youth as a collaborative takes over 100 million selfies a day. How's that for ego?
"You can choose to use your fingerprint or your face - you tap it, the transaction is okayed (sic) and you're done." - Ajay Bhalla, MasterCard Chief Product Security Officer
And if taking a selfie at the dinner table isn't enough to foot the bill, you're required to blink when prompted to stop spoofers holding up a picture of you, to take a picture of you. How fascinating.
This trial is currently only available to certain US citizens, and is not entirely bulletproof. MasterCard is also experimenting with things like voice recognition and heartbeat monitoring to authorise transactions.
