2/26 Weekly Tech Article

MasterCard Launching Selfie Payments 

• The MasterCard credit card company announced that they will be adding two more methods to confirm payments - face recognition and fingerprint. 
• Facial and fingerprint scans are much safer than passwords since many customers use easy to guess passwords. 
• Customers who want to try facial recognition will have to download a special MasterCard app that lets them take a photo each time they make an online purchase.
• The customer's face or fingerprint is scanned to verify that they're not a hacker or thief and it tells users to blink when taking the photo to make sure it's not a previously taken photo. 
• MasterCard is also planning to introduce other ways of confirming purchases, such as monitoring the customer's heartbeat and voice recognition.