With Mastercard, your face could pay for your purchases

A new biometric payment program developed by Mastercard is to be tested this week in Brazil, in five stores of a local supermarket chain.

Customers registered for this service will be able to pay, without a credit card or mobile phone, by smiling at a camera or passing their hand over a reader, explains an article from the

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The payment services giant told the British media that this program would be available "in store or at home, at a merchant or on the application of an identity provider".

To do this, users will only need to register their face and payment information in the PayFace application.

The issue of personal data

Mastercard hopes in the long term to ensure the interoperability of the system, that is to say to allow customers to pay in different businesses by having recorded their data only once.

A device which will have to go through a reinforced protection of personal data, a subject which, since the announcement of the development of this program, has already caused controversy.

On the American channel CNBC, the Cyber ​​& Intelligence president of Mastercard reassured the troops by explaining that this innovation stemmed from consumer demand.

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