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Mastercard Tags Biometrics And Passkeys as a Fix for Passwords

Mastercard Inc. is taking on the problematic use of passwords with its new Biometric Authentication Service. Announced Wednesday, the new global service is meant to help resolve friction and vulnerability issues that arise from ceaseless passwords and multi-factor authentication prompts, Mastercard says. The service relies on standards from the Fast …

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Eye on Biometrics: Amazon One Adds Age Verification; WeChat Adds Palm Payments

Amazon.com Inc. is adding another feature to its Amazon One palm-based identity service, and Chinese site WeChat has brought palm recognition to cameras used for facial recognition. Amazon One has added an age-verification component, Amazon said in a blog post. Launched in 2020, the technology recently expanded beyond Amazon properties …

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Panera Bread Rolls Out the Amazon One Biometric Tech in Select Locations

Panera Bread on Wednesday announced it is adopting Amazon One, Amazon.com Inc.’s biometric-payment technology, at select locations in the St. Louis area. The deployment of Amazon One, which links a customer’s payment card to his or her palm print, is expected to make it easier for Panera customers to access …

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Mercedes Adds Biometric Payments to Five Models, Turning the Car into a Payment Device

Mercedes-Benz’s new Mercedes pay+ in-car payment service is coming to five models manufactured by the Germany-based luxury-car maker. Though earlier efforts from a variety of car makers put in-car payments on the road, Mercedes-Benz is the first, with its Mercedes pay+ technology, to use Visa Inc.’s Delegated Authentication and Cloud …

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COMMENTARY: Payments Security Requires Tokenization, Biometrics—And You

Digital payments are on the rise, and so is payment fraud. As of 2020, nearly 80% of Americans used at least one form of digital payment. Between 2020 and 2021, payment fraud attacks rose dramatically on digital wallets (200%), payment service providers (169%) and crypto exchanges (140%). To keep up …

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Linxens in Biometric Card Deal and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/20/22

Linxens Holding SAS has become the global provider of biometric smart cards produced with technology from Linxens and Idex Biometrics ASA under a new agreement. The cards feature fingerprint sensors from Idex and an NFC antenna inlay from Linxens.Blockchain-based gaming platform Aqua said it has hired former Facebook executive Sean Ryan as chief …

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