Mastercard to use NEC ID verification in biometric payment system

Mastercard and NEC Corporation announced it will implement NEC face biometrics and liveness detection into Mastercard's payment system to improve user experience and drive global scale.

First launched as a pilot in Brazil last year, Mastercard’s new Biometric Checkout Program allows consumers to pay in-store by smiling into the device's camera or waving across the sensor.

The program gives providers a collaborative framework to establish security, biometric performance data protection and privacy requirements for the finance, merchant, and tech partners …

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