Exposing Your Face Isn’t a More Hygienic Way to Pay
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/exposing-your-face-isnt-more-hygienic-way-pay
A company called PopID has created an identity-management system that uses face recognition. Their first use case is as a system for in-store, point of sale payments using face recognition as authorization for payment. They are promoting it as a tool for restaurants, claiming that it is pandemic-friendly because it is contactless. Nonetheless, the PopID payment system is less secure than alternatives, unfriendly to privacy, and is likely riskier than other payment alternatives for anyone (...)
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