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Now Mastercard Wants Your Fingerprints
Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Earlier this week, USA Today reported that massive payment processor MasterCard had joined the FIDO alliance. FIDO is an acronym for Fast IDentity Online, and the group describes itself as:
The FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance is a 501(c)6 non-profit organization nominally formed in July 2012 to address the lack of interoperability among strong authentication devices as well as the problems users face with creating and remembering multiple usernames and passwords. The FIDO Alliance plans to change the nature of authentication by developing specifications that define an open, scalable, interoperable set of mechanisms that supplant reliance on passwords to securely authenticate users of online services. This new standard for security devices and browser plugins will allow any website or cloud application to interface with a broad variety of existing and future FIDO-enabled devices that the user has for online security.
USA Today reports that:
SAN FRANCISCO — MasterCard is joining the FIDO Alliance, signaling that the payment network is getting interested in using fingerprints and other biometric data to identify people for online payments.
MasterCard will be the first major payment network to join FIDO. The Alliance is developing an open industry standard for biometric data such as fingerprints to be used for identification online. The goal is to replace clunky passwords and take friction out of logging on and purchasing using mobile devices.
It’s for your own good, and it’ll probably fight terrorism too!
Apple’s new iPhone 5s smartphone has a fingerprint sensor, but the tech giant is not part of FIDO. However, Google is part of the Alliance, and devices running Google’s Android operating system will have fingerprint sensors by next year.
I’m sure the folks at the Department of Homeland Security will be more than happy that the financial giant will make mass collection under its Biometric Optical Surveillance System (BOSS) that much easier. Serfs up suckers!
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Instead of just stealing our credit cards, thieves are now going to cut off our thumbs as well.
I hope cashiers like taking checks.
In other news:
MasterCard Executives have quietly invested money into two new ventures:
a) to manufacture pocket-size carry cases for up to 10 thumbs and
b) to manufacture prosthetic thumbs.
The Banks are always chasing the next Fraud and here is one staring at them in the face. The eye phone has proved how easy it is to commit biometric fraud, biometric terrorism fraud could be the next big thing. Somebody could authorize purchases for making bombs and all authenticated by fake biometrics. Everywhere you go you leave fingerprints, you might as well just leave your PIN number on a piece of Paper. Which will lead toa whole new professinal fraud bussiness, fingerprint grabbing and manufactoring.
3D printers
49,000 backlog in the lovely state of Illinois for FOID, firearm owner ID cards, which are needed to purchase and own any kind of gun in Illinois. The card is also needed to purchase ammunition. The government has already won. Wait until national FOID cards are deemed for the greater good and you need a state police issued ID card with your picture to buy a gun or ammo. Think it can't happen? It happened in ILlinois. Land of the free, home of the sheep, self included it seems. FOID card picture is a bit nicer than the drivers license pic though, gotta say.
The mark of the BEAST!!!!!!
FOR SALE:
Previously used thumbs with unique identifier print.. Will procure to your specifications.
reply to pablo@sinaloa.mx
Great now they can sell that to health insurance companies too, they are already selling our Visa and MasterCard records to United and Blue Cross and of course they are head over heels wanting biometrics in any way they can get it on file...
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2013/03/insurance-companies-are-buying-up...
One more on that issue too where they want to know what junk food you eat as well...
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2013/05/health-insurers-and-others-trying...
Sure for access...but they will sell the data base information as well. I live in the OC to where United Healthcare is like taking over everything...and FTC just sleeps along.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2013/10/uc-irvine-affiliates-itself-with....