Facial recognition technology is not new, but using your face to pay for shopping is. New research has identified what will help consumers embrace this new tech, and what could stop them.
  • Juice@midwest.socialEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Looking forward to this dystopian technology being pushed out to all retailers and then never working so I still have to swipe my card anyway

    • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      9 months ago

      That’s not how it will fail. It will fail because it charges you for things you didn’t intend to purchase

  • Praise Idleness@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 months ago

    A big local tech corp is trying to push facial recognition payment at my university campus. Turns out all people needed was a cup of free coffee. I’m serious.

    • 200ok@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Ugh, I remember the lineup of kids willing to sign away their credit scores up for a credit card to get the free advertisement “swag” T-shirts, pens, and frisbees

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    9 months ago

    That sounds like an absolutely horrible idea.

    • Biometrics are non-revocable. It gets compromised, you can’t change your face. Well, not easily.

    • Your face is not a secret. You plaster it everywhere all day long, unless you’re gonna wear a mask.

    • Cameras and the systems feeding them on consumer systems are not trusted hardware. I can feed synthesized video to you. That’s before even making a physical face they looks like someone else.

    Give me a little hardware device, like a scaled down smartphone, with a trusted display (so I can trust what I see on the thing, instead of what some point-of-sale system is saying) and keypad with PIN and contacts that can interface with my phone or computer or PoS system (because wireless authorization of financial transactions is also not great). Maybe even put a fingerprint scanner on it (not that a fingerprint is great, also a non-revocable biometric plastered all over, but it makes swiping someone’s token after viewing their PIN harder). Someone submits a transaction to the thing, it displays the information to me, I authenticate myself to the device, it cryptographically signs my approval, done.

    I don’t want my keystore on my phone or computer, because they are big and complicated and I don’t want a lot of routes into the device.