Gives a whole new meaning to the saying "who was that masked man?"
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/24/finland-shoppers-can-now-pay-items-facial-recognit/ > Forget cash. Leave the credit cards at home. Shoppers in Finland have a new > means of paying for their purchases — with their faces. > > The New York Post reported that Finnish consumers may in fact be the first > group of people in the world to be able to pay for their purchases using > facial recognition technology. The company, Uniqul, provides the stores with > the service, which calls for customers to peer into a camera. The company > then links the shopper’s facial features to his or her bank account, and > notes the withdrawal. > > It’s at least as fast as swiping a credit card, The New York Post reported. > > The company says its technology is secure — and that it uses military-level > algorithms that can withstand hack attacks. Technology geeks think it won’t > be long before most stores in Australia latch on to the new payment method, > The New York Post reported. It’s similar to what’s already used at Australian > airports, by international travelers. > > “The face is a PIN and it’s more like a complete way to identify a person and > to provide access to the person’s own Cloud wallet,” said Uniqul’s Ruslan > Pisarenko, in The New York Post. “But in some cases where the system is not > 100 percent accurate, it will ask a person to input their PIN as security.” > > Mr. Pisarenko said the technology could even differentiate between identical > twins. Customers sign up for the service and input their information, which > is then stored in company databases. -- Kim Holburn IT Network & Security Consultant T: +61 2 61402408 M: +61 404072753 mailto:[email protected] aim://kimholburn skype://kholburn - PGP Public Key on request _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
