Forget swiping your card - thanks to a banner year for biometric payments, with JPMorgan and Mastercard joining the fray, paying with your face could soon be your new reality.
Forget swiping your card - thanks to a banner year for biometric payments, with JPMorgan and Mastercard joining the fray, paying with your face could soon be your new reality.
What problem is this solving?
Them not having enough facial data from us
But there’s already so much facial porn!
Not enough data being collected from credit card use to link your identity to video streams from retailers.
Great Mastercard and JP Morgan making it easier for someone to rob you. Imagine them taking your pic and using it to make payments. This dystopia.
I suppose there is a security system to prevent just presenting a pic to the cam. But I agree that we shouldn’t trust it.
In any case, biometrics are bad to authenticate people. What’s the point of a key you can’t replace/change…
What happens if you get haircut or get zits etc? So much could make this not work. You know amount customers I have turn away because they come in wanting to use their phone to tap to pay.
Like come on people it’s a cool feature but why not carry your card for backup? Not every store except those.
if it’s easier to pay, people spend more
The tech world wants the easy money made from payment processing, as well as all the data they can get.
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I’m more upset by the word ‘Resto’ in the title
Dystopian depression?
Before long every cashier is going to request a smile from you, scripted as the most friendly way to say “please let me shov this scanner on your face”
The psychological effect of being requested to smile every time you make a purchase will reinforce your behavior to purchase more and appear less miserable keeping up the illusion that everything is cool and normal.
I am just talking from my ass but gotta remember that the ceos species have their asshole below their nose.
You can get 10% off if you drink a verification can in front of scanner.
The “problem” of having more people than we have meaningful work for. This is not a new problem, but it is increasingly exacerbated by automation. So we manufacture bullshit work just to keep busy, because we’ve decided people shouldn’t have food or shelter if they’re not doing work, bullshit or not.
The world would be better off if whoever got paid to plan and implement this instead got paid to just stay in bed. The economy is fundamentally broken.
I wholly agree with your overall point but that’s not why this exists. The ruling class is not so benevolent to give people jobs just to make sure they’re fed - they don’t care. This technology exists because it’s good for the shareholders. Data - and control of said data - is valuable and their bosses want it. It’s all about profits and consolidated power - this job would not exist if not for its benefit to the ruling class.
“Bullshit work” is stuff like paper pushing and those are the jobs that are disappearing with automation.
You’re right, but I think there’s a lot of overlap here. Large businesses are not laser-focused and are not rational actors.
Someone pitched this as a way to make money. Someone believed that was plausible and approved it. But the motivation for even pitching it was likely a step or two removed from that.
Executives and middle managers are not above bullshitting to justify their salaries.