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With JPMorgan, Mastercard on board in biometric ‘breakthrough’ year, you may soon start paying with your face

Biometric technology like Amazon's pay-by-palm is already in hundreds of stores. Facial recognition to buy things is next, and restaurants are already using it.

In January, Steak 'N Shake, a fast-casual restaurant in the Midwest, started installing facial recognition kiosks in its 300 locations for patron check-in. In March, an Illinois woman sued retailer Target for allegedly illegally collecting and storing her and other customers' biometric data via facial recognition technology without their consent. Sheldon Jacobson, a professor in computer science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, said he sees biometric identification as part of a technology continuum that has evolved from payment with a credit card to smartphones.

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