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
I bet the false positives are through the roof.
It’s much easier to make you smile than to force you to give up your credit card pin number when being robbed!
Cards should have a duress PIN that appears to work and clears the transaction when used, but then immediately locks the account and flags it for fraud investigation.
Is it not your PIN entered backwards anymore?
But what if your PIN is a palindrome?
You’re always calling for help hahaha
And you don’t even need to know you’ve been robbed. You look at a stranger on the street? Now your bank accounted is empty! How efficient!
Literally already works if I know your credit card number. Fraudulent charges are possible, but well. Fraud tends to be prosecuted and illegal.
Would be funny if the company is based in French.
How is their slogan not “you should Smile more”
“Citizen, turn that frown upside down.”
“You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile”
I have so many questions. How does it differentiate customers? Like say I’m standing in line just off to the side behind someone buying a few big ticket items, when the face scan happens how will it know which face to charge? Same question for a couple people checking out together. Will I have to take my hat and sunglasses off to check out or does it use other technologies to build face maps like lidar? What if I got a broken nose or fractured orbital, can I just not buy things? What about beards, if a guy scans his face initially with a beard and shaves it, how will the system respond? Is there an upper limit on purchases made this way like there is with tap to pay? What will it do about age verified products like tobacco or alcohol?
I would bet money they didn’t test for any of that and if they did it would be within very narrow parameters.
How will they handle twins or people who looks very close to each other?
Bro, don’t kill the vibes with all of this very real world shit that will actually happen. Just smile for the camera and it will all be over soon.
Yes, these are all problems that will be solved very, very quickly once this launches and totally fails and we never hear about it again.
How does it differentiate customers? Same question for a couple people checking out together.
Airports already handle this on a daily basis:
Cameras scan only small field.
Will I have to take my hat and sunglasses off to check out or does it use other technologies to build face maps like lidar?
Probably the same as face unlock in iPhones. You can check how this works and apply answers here.
What will it do about age verified products like tobacco or alcohol?
This is just another form of payment so it will do the same as credit card or cash.
That works because it’s the TSA agent’s responsibility to make it work. This will not apply to your average stoned gas station employee.
Additionally, this system checks against specifically the driver’s license photo.
No it doesn’t. Yes it will. It’s irrelevant.
How easy is it to use it to scam people? If I smile in public, can I get photographed and that used to pay things? Is a smiling photo the next “they stole my card”?
That’s it, I’m never smiling again!
Can we all just carry around a photo of Bezos, Musk, or a Rothschild or Rockerfeller, or CEOs of insurance companies, etc?
The Intuit Dome in LA already does this. You grab food/drinks and it automatically charges you based on your face. And you guessed it, there have been many complaints about people getting charged for something they didn’t get. I’m never stepping foot inside that venue.
In another world without the technological horrors, this would be cool.
Yeah. [Unless in an assured eternal utopian paradise of ubiquitous fairness and honesty and goodness etc, it’s] Foolish to make such a thing ever, in case crooks get in charge… but to try start implementing such a thing while crooks are in charge?! !!!
No thanks!
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)
No one ever had those problems.
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.
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
