Biometrics in payment services: fingerprint, face, heart rate and blood in the finger

The founder of Alibaba Group at CeBIT in Germany introduced a new way of confirmation payments via facial recognition, and UK banks are experiencing heart rate monitors, scanners, fingerprint and blood to authenticate users in financial services.






At CeBIT in Germany Jack Ma bought a souvenir shop brand in the company Alibaba. To confirm the purchase, Ma сканировал face using the front camera smartphone. Alibaba founder noted that online payments are often a problem: people forget passwords, think about security. According to him, this will help to forget about the technology of facial recognition. Smile to Pay system is still under development.

The service Alipay account 300 million Chinese users, more than half of users to make purchases from their mobile devices.



Bank of Halifax испытывает technology that allows the user to identify financial services to its heartbeat. The pulse monitoring fitness tracker Nymi Band. According to the director of innovation and the digital department of the bank Mark Lin, the use of the electrocardiogram "naturally provides strong protection against intrusion and tampering."



Apple relies on other options: Pay service uses fingerprint scanner , which are equipped with the iPhone and Watch. These scanners on Apple devices using British banks RBS and NatWest - Touch ID allows customers not to enter a password to access the online banking services.



Starting this year, corporate clients of Barclays Bank will be available новый Identification method : Biometric manufactured by Hitachi, using as a guide the blood in the veins in the finger of the user. To scan device uses light in the near infrared spectrum. System developers point to the imperfection of fingerprint scanners.





Source: geektimes.ru/post/247394/

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