New Amazon Patent Application: Pay-By-Selfie

Amazon Wants the Patent for Pay-By-Selfie

Jason Del Rey | March 14, 2016

First, Amazon patented one-click purchasing buying. Now it wants a patent for pay-by-selfie.
The Seattle-based e-commerce company recently filed a patent application for a process that would allow shoppers to make a purchase by taking a photo and/or video of themselves rather than keying in their account password. The application is related to a separate patent Amazon holds for a technology that allows a device to authenticate a user via a photo or video, but not necessarily to complete a transaction.

July 04, 2015 Mastercard to start verifying payments by selfie. Source: http://www.oot.it/news/mastercard-to-start-verifying-payments-by-selfie

<more at http://recode.net/2016/03/14/amazon-wants-the-patent-for-pay-by-selfie/; related links and articles: http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/01/technology/mastercard-facial-scan/ (MasterCard will approve purchases by scanning your face. July 1, 2015) and http://www.pcworld.com/article/3026809/security/how-to-make-bad-passwords-better-and-more-hope-for-the-future-of-authentication.html (How to make bad passwords better, and more hope for the future of authentication. We know passwords are a pain. We're not expecting miracles. But we can give you some tips. February 4, 2016)>