{"id":68302,"date":"2024-05-22T19:12:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T00:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68302"},"modified":"2024-05-22T19:12:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T00:12:52","slug":"2024-the-inevitable-rise-of-biometrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68302","title":{"rendered":"2024 & the Inevitable Rise of Biometrics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2024 & the Inevitable Rise of Biometrics<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
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Have you noticed a lot of two-factor authentication prompts lately? Are you getting emailed verification codes that take forever to arrive, so you have to request another?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Perhaps you are asked to do captchas to \u201cprove you\u2019re human\u201d and they seem to be getting more complex all the time or simply not working at all?<\/p>\n

Why do you think that might be?<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll come back to that.<\/p>\n

Did you know we\u2019re in a \u201cbreakthrough year\u201d for biometric payment systems?<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0this story from CNBC<\/a>, JPMorgan and Mastercard are on board with the technology and intend a wide rollout in the near future, following successful trials.<\/p>\n

In March this year, JPMorgan signed a deal with PopID to begin a broad release of biometric\u00a0payment systems in 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A Mastercard spokesman told CNBC:<\/p>\n

Our focus on biometrics as a secure way to verify identity, replacing the password with the person, is at the heart of our efforts in this area,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apple Pay already lets you pay with a face scan, while Amazon have introduced pay-by-palm in many of their real-world stores.<\/p>\n

VISA showcased their latest palm biometric payment set-up at an event in Singapore earlier this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As we covered in a recent\u00a0This Week<\/a><\/em>, PayPal is pushing out its own biometric payment systems in the name of \u201cpreventing fraud\u201d.<\/p>\n

As always, this is not just an issue in \u201cthe West\u201d.<\/p>\n

Chinese companies have been leading this race for a while, with AliPay having biometric\u00a0payment options since 2015<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Moscow\u2019s Metro system has been using facial recognition cameras for biometric payments\u00a0for over a year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not just payments,\u00a0\u201creplacing the password with the person\u201d<\/em>\u00a0has already spread to other areas.<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2024 & the Inevitable Rise of Biometrics Have you noticed a lot of two-factor authentication prompts lately? Are you getting emailed verification codes that take forever to arrive, so you have to request another? Perhaps you are asked to do captchas to \u201cprove you\u2019re human\u201d and they seem to be getting more complex all the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34050,17365,23436,24368,765],"class_list":["post-68302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-34050","tag-biometrics","tag-kit-knightly","tag-off-guardian-2","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68303,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68302\/revisions\/68303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}