Mastercard launches tech that lets you pay with your face or hand in stores

CNBC ^ | May 17 2022 | Ryan Browne

[euram]

Mastercard is piloting new technology that lets shoppers make payments with just their face or hand at the checkout point.

The company on Tuesday launched a program for retailers to offer biometric payment methods, like facial recognition and fingerprint scanning. At checkout, users will be able to authenticate their payment by showing their face or the palm of their hand instead of swiping their card.

[euram]

Shouldn't MasterCard be forced to change its name, because it sounds so "white supremacist" too much like "master race"?

[9YearLurker]

Visa sounds feminine. Maybe VisX?

[mkmensinger]

Gee, where have I read about this before? Could it have been in Revelation?

[BenLurkin]

[Pollard]

I paid with my face once when I had been drinking and my mouth wrote a check my arse couldn’t cash.

[proust]

Sounds vaguely familiar, but I can’t place it. 🤔

[imabadboy99]

16And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, 17 so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark— the name of the beast or the number of its name.

[Alas Babylon!]

Revelation, 13-16/7: It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

[The Louiswu]

I can reach into my wallet AND PAY CASH 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Still Thinking]

Do we get a free 666 tattoo?

[NicoDon]

100% they are selling your biometrics to anyone who will pay.

[Scrambler Bob]

If you pay with only your finger is that 1/5 or 1/10?

[viewfromthefrontier]

Can’t think of anything that could go wrong...

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“If you pay with only your finger is that 1/5 or 1/10?”

Gonna be a LOT of people in stores now with their shoes off, trying to count to twenty! ;)

[G Larry]

I thought BLM and Antifa had tech for “paying with your hands”?

[Born in 1950]

Ha! The mark of the beast has been there since birth.

[Sirius Lee]

If you pay with only your finger is that 1/5 or 1/10?

You need the entire hand for the five finger discount.

[vrwc1]

LOL!

[Zack Attack]

“If you pay with only your finger is that 1/5 or 1/10?”

1/8, thumbs are not fingers technically. :P

[Mr. N. Wolfe]

If this technology were applied to voting...dead voters would become obsolete.