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Marching in a steadfast fashion towards becoming nothing more than a robot who works, eats shit food, and with whatever cash may be left over, buys over priced necessities, it’s really troublesome to have to take cash or card out of your pocket to purchase said items of shit.
Thankfully, technology marches steadfastly along too, and always provides a way to make life as creepy, ugly and as dystopian as possible.
from winepressnews.com
Some Michiganders can now pay for their goods with just their eyes, courtesy of Polish fintech company “PayEye.” The goal of the company is to help move the public away from traditional cash payments into a more ‘convenient’ way to pay.
So far only a handful are in use in East Lansing and Ann Arbor. They have been in use in Poland since 2020. The PayEye app can also be used to make purchases online and scan QR codes for transactions.
Anil Jain, a Michigan State University Professor of Computer Science, was the first person to make a payment with this technology in the U.S. and shared his joy for this fintech innovation.
What I was impressed with, is the ease of capturing iris. Number two, the time it takes, the small amount of time it takes to make the payment.
So at the payment time, you don’t have to take anything out of your pocket. No mobile phone, no credit card, you simply look at the camera on the payment terminal, and you’re done.
I think this is very impressive technology, and this is the wave of the future.
He said
Everybody is waiting for the wave of the future and have been since the future was first created. And each wave that comes along is more nauseating than the last wave. So, imagine this next wave in the present-day lunatic asylum where you can just look at a screen, and the junk you’ve thrown into your cart is now yours. How long will it take for morons to look at their screens and demand that lollipops and candy canes drop from the sky, no matter whether they’re in bed, at their desk or on the commode? If they’re staring at their screen…why not!
Last year PayEye partnered with Visa, allowing users to link their Visa accounts to the app, and customers would earn special rewards for doing so.
This June, PayEye partnered with Mastercard to begin a pilot program in select locations in Poland, becoming “the first payment pilot in Europe biometrics under the Mastercard Biometric Checkout program,” the company says.
PayEye added: ‘The global Mastercard Biometric Checkout program introduces the first in its the type of technological framework to help set standards for new ones
ways of paying, enabling payment card holders to benefit from a wide range
ranges of biometric payment authentication methods such as fingerprint, hand scan,
face or iris.’
Mastercard is a pioneer of innovative and security-enhancing payment methods and standardization. Poland, however, is an ideal place for such a breakthrough pilot program. It was our country that was one of the first to stay in introduced contactless payments with Mastercard cards, and Polish consumers are leaders in openness to innovation.
The pilot we initiate today with Empik and PayEye is also confirming Mastercard’s commitment to the development of local technologies and supporting the Polish electronic payment market. We believe that biometrics can provide consumers with best-in-class experience, balancing convenience and security, and we are looking forward to scaling our program here in Poland.
Marta Życińska, general director of the Polish branch of Mastercard, said
Ah! The system to control EVERYTHING, including all of us, rolls on.
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Tonight’s musical offering:
Dispatches from the Asylum 