Secure Biometric Technology For Paying The Register

Secure Biometric Technology For Paying The Register

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Biometric identification means have been around for some time now, helping commercial companies to keep their information secure and their offices compartmentalized. Being an identity verification tool based on unique individual human features, biometric identification is considered one of the most reliable technologies existing today. Due to it being able to tell one person from another almost flawlessly, the technology has reached fields it never meant to reach. Two examples follow: The first is the detection and filtering abilities the technology offers law enforcement agencies when searching for a specific person in a large crowd, thanks to the differences in facial features forming a unique signature, just like in fingerprints. The second example is the ability to be identified with facial features as we come to make a purchase. It’s not obvious that only this one precaution is all the security needed for making business transactions, but given the fact that this technology keeps getting more advanced, as well as that even twins have biometric differences – small and minor as they may be – this doesn’t seem like such a bad deal.

The credit card company MasterCard has decided to turn this biometric technology into an identification means for credit payments, thus becoming one of the first companies to provide its clients an easy, convenient and reliable identification service based on the facial features of the person paying. With our cellular phones today all having high quality cameras, a person could take a Selfie as part of a general identification procedure. This will also make the user experience more enjoyable, as the Selfie trend is a central one nowadays.

Payment via facial features is not the only way with which a business transaction could be verified in the not-so-far future. Canadian company Nymi is in the process of testing a new special bracelet to pay with in stores. The bracelet is using a different biometric system than that of MasterCard, as it recognizes the person wearing it by their heartbeat rate.

No other systems are currently in such progressive stages, but it’s possible, even likely, that other biometric means, such as fingerprints or voice recognition, will also be used in to financial field in the future.

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