No phone, or card, or cash required
Don’t forget no fuckin thanks.
Fast forward 5 months: massive data breach for everyone that used the system, mischarges from others to your account with no way to get your money back, police and politicians demanding data access without a court order, etc
Trusting Revolut when they say that your personal data is safe… man, I’d better not
Every online business that collects photo ID has been hacked and those IDs have been stolen. Just saying.
Yes but there’s a big difference between IDs and biometric data, not to mention you can (in Europe at least) revoke an ID if you find it’s compromised, you can revoke an ID you can’t revoke your face.
This is the important part. Faces are immutable. Unless you’re a weird celebrity, you only get one.
Attaching your financial data and/or private data to something that cannot be changed and CAN be stolen or reproduced is a terrible fucking idea.
While real security technologies are moving toward ephemeral, short-lived credentials to fight credential reuse and theft, we have these fucktards going in the complete opposite direction.
Your face is NOT a password.
My apartment building has a facial recognition system to unlock the door to the building. My cousin got recognized as his brother that was in the system and the door just opened for them.
What a wonderful idea to use the same tech to deal with money.
Cue Zooey Deschanel/Kate Perry/Emily Blunt meme
Not in a thousand fucking years
I’m good with using cash.
I can’t wait until these sports and concert venues switch to FacePay only. They already refuse to take cash.
I’ll pass completely then, I don’t mind credit cards too much since I like to get refunds.
I can’t say my face isn’t already in a bunch of countries databases in multiple countries; but I’ll take the small loss to get in and out of the airport.
Despite not completely agreeing with the method, flying into Japan is so easy now. Literately just go get my passport sticker-ed, the more stickers the less questions, look in the camera, grab my luggage, check in a podium terminal and mark that you don’t have pets and find out what exit to go through, and then walk out, another camera scans your face as you walk out. I would say the only thing that’s slow is the baggage claim. Korea is really bad with this one.
I think eventually it will be inevitable. But I’ll stick with cash as long as I can, not having something in your hand makes it really easy to overspend.
It’s going to be great when I can walk up to someone with a Point-of-Sale app on my phone, scan their face and charge them money.
ooooo didn’t think of that. Day one Exploit
That’s my exploit! Get your own!
Ya know I may be a Californian Redneck but I do at least with my facial features look pretty big standard ethnically Scottish, how many false positives could I trigger with my ugly mug? Regardless get one of those blowtorch lighters and melt the plastic camera lenses on these pieces of absolute detritus.
But what if your phone is dead? How are you gonna use cash then?
Edit: replied to wrong comment
how does this lower the cost? yeah it doesn’t fuk off. more stealing from consumers without them knowing.
Me: (carries unflattering picture of Elon musks head everywhere for no reason)
I bet the false positives are through the roof.
No one ever had those problems.
Oh you smiled twice! Double charged.
Do people still smile once?
Computer says no.
- you look like someone dodgy
Computer says no.
- you are flagged as a dissident terrorist
Computer says no.
- a solar storm broke electronics
Computer says nothing.
Isn’t Revolut that had a data breach like 10 days ago, leaking costumer data like IBANs etc??
Oh don’t worry, they leaked your facial data then too
