Smartphones are promoting a big deal, disaccustoming people from PIN codes and demonstrating the convenience of fingerprint scanners. They are both safer and more convenient. MasterCard looks at this technology for use in payment cards as a replacement for a four-digit code. Appropriate test cards have already appeared in South Africa, writes Engadget.
New maps are planned to be implemented around the world until the end of 2017. True, specific countries, where this technology will work, are not called, because much depends on specific banks and relevant legislation.
The user simply passes in the bank an imprint of one or two fingers, which are encrypted and written to the EMV-chip. But this must be the prints of the cardholder solely. Relatives will not pass. Most likely, to work with such cards you need the appropriate terminals in the stores.
