Facial Recognition for Authentication through Selfie

This New technology helps authenticate users thereby enabling the Users under trial to hold their phone up as though taking a selfie to approve transactions. The new generation, which is into selfies, I think they'll find it cool says the firm's security expert Ajay Bhalla..

One security expert told the BBC facial recognition should be complemented with "extra layers of security". Google tried facial recognition on Android phones and there were a lot of problems in the early days", said Ken Munro, so better authentication needs to be implemented to prevent fradualent acts and security breach.

People realised you could take a photo of somebody and present it to the camera, and the phone would unlock, whereas Mastercard's app asks users to blink to prove that they are human, but even this has been spoofed in the past.