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> Wasn't there an article about paying with your face around here just a bit ago?

There's not much risk to 'pay with your face' for Apple/Google/Samsung pay given it's all on-device biometrics that never leave the phone, but a similar situation is when Google paid $5 to people willing to submit their face to help with facial recognition training in the then-upcoming Pixel 4 phone.

https://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/google-pixel-4-usd-5-f...



It wasn't about that, it was about cameras and screens mounted on kiosks that you would just look at and make a hand gesture to pay. Not sure who was doing the processing, but it certainly wasn't anything the users owned/controlled.




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