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

Automated fast food restaurant CaliExpress by Flippy, in Pasadena, Calif., opened in January to considerable hype due to its robot burger makers, but the restaurant launched with another, less heralded innovation: the ability to pay for your meal with your face.

CaliExpress uses a payment system from facial ID tech company PopID. To activate it, users register with a selfie. Then they can opt to be recognized and then PopID’s facial verification confirms the transaction.

It’s not the only fast-food chain to employ the technology. 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. The chain says that using PopID takes two to three seconds compared with a check-in with a QR code or mobile app, which can take up to 20 seconds.

Biometric payment options are becoming more common. Amazon introduced pay-by-palm technology in 2020, and while its cashier-less store experiment has faltered, it installed the tech in 500 of its Whole Foods stores last year. Mastercard, which is working with PopID, launched a pilot for face-based payments in Brazil back in 2022, and it was deemed a success — 76% of pilot participants said they would recommend the technology to a friend. Late last year, Mastercard said it was teaming with NEC to bring its Biometric Checkout Program to the Asia-Pacific region.

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[Tall Timbers]

What's to keep criminals from using your face while putting big charges on your card? The victim wouldn't even have the choice to not cooperate.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

JP Morgan-Chase
Chase does the Amazon Prime Visa

So, coming soon to Amazon, perhaps by webcam/cell cam.
Also any travel purchased on that card.
And at Whole Foods (purchased by Amazon some years ago), which already has Pay by Palm (which is creepy; I avoid the checkout line in which PBP is right next to the card reader).

 

[mattfivefour]

The chain says that using PopID takes two to three seconds compared with a check-in with a QR code or mobile app, which can take up to 20 seconds.

And just what will a person do with that extra 17 seconds? Has life become so full that every second has become important? It seems to me that as the world has become more concerned with faster and faster everything, we have lost far, far more than we have gained.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

And just what will a person do with that extra 17 seconds? Has life become so full that every second has become important? It seems to me that as the world has become more concerned with faster and faster everything, we have lost far, far more than we have gained.

Bring back the cash box and stubby pencil figuring and receipts!
At least the kids have to know something to make change and charge the right tax.
Far more personal, as well. I still remember the name of the cashier at Red Owl that Mom always went to, and that was from back when I sat in the seat in the cart and had no siblings (Mrs. Johnson, aka, "the lady with the glasses")