Get the latest tech news
Mastercard Launches Its Biometric Retail Payment System in Europe
"Buy with your eyes, pay with your glance."
Ukraine’s wholesale digitisation of government services — the so-called “state in a smartphone” — predate the war, but in the eternal spirit of never letting a good crisis go to waste and with financial support from USAID, the EU and the UN Development Program, it has been significantly expanded since and is even being used as a template for other countries looking to do the same. “Sadly, this is a horrible example of what can happen as a result of implementing privacy-invasive facial recognition systems,” Samantha Floreani, head of policy for Australia-based privacy and security nonprofit Digital Rights Watch, tells WIRED. As Illinois’ BIPA law notes, once biometric identifiers are compromised, “the individual has no recourse, is at heightened risk for identity theft, and is likely to withdraw from biometric-facilitated transactions.” This is what makes the relentless march toward a future of biometric-enabled surveillance and control so dangerous.
Or read this on Hacker News
