Time To Pay Using A Selfie Is Finally Here - Mastercard. #PurchaseSelfie

MasterCard customers will soon be able to replace their passwords with a "selfie" and fingerprint to verify their identity and make payments online.

Heey ladies, at last... all those selfies you’ve taken might yield more of a reward than 450 likes across social media and an approving glance from the office creep.

The fine folk of MasterCard are about to revolutionise the password game, the conventional ‘password123’ set to be replaced by a photo of your mug and a fingerprint verification process.

Biometric checks have already been trialed in the U.S. and the Netherlands, and the company will be launching them in the U.K. soon.

The system could lead to increased online sales as passwords are replaced with a more convenient solution. According to a survey by MasterCard, 53 percent of shoppers forget passwords at least once a week, wasting more than 10 minutes to reset their accounts and leading to a third of shoppers abandoning their purchase.

I hope anyone that might be using the card can relate, that moment the checkout cart asks for a login and the brain suffers a short circuit.
Source: [nbcnews]