Amazon Developing Selfie Pay System
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Selfies have become an internet staple as of late, and now it seems as if Amazon is joining the trend. According to GalleyCat, the company may soon implement a process that lets you pay for books by selfie.
Amazon has filed for a patent on a system that will make purchases possible through taking a photo or video in lieu of using a password. Employing technology similar to Microsoft’s Windows Hello, the unique idea will incorporate image-authentication software to confirm the user.
CNBC was quoted as saying that the patent “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.”
I guess in the case of buying a book on Amazon, a picture really is worth a thousand words.
News by Raine Winters
Raine lives in Cleveland, Ohio and works as a freelance writer and graphic artist. From an early age she has harbored a love of reading and writing, and is lucky enough to incorporate both into her daily work routine. Raine is a lover of all things fantasy and horror related, has a soft spot in her heart for middle grade and young adult fiction, and spends most of her free time running, wakesurfing, or wrangling in her husband and three cats while they perpetrate a massive amount of mischief around the house.
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