Amazon and payment with selfies

Amazon has recently patented electronic payment via selfie, it will be therefore a photo with a certain facial expression is sufficient to enable online payment on the Amazon website.

Other companies are also studying alternative methods to simplify e-payment, MasterCard plans authentication through photo or fingerprint, while Google studies authentication via biometric data.

According to the Digital Innovation Observatories of the Polytechnic University of Milan, new digital payments (eCommerce, ePayment, Mobile Payment & Commerce distance and proximity, Mobile POS and Contactless Payment), which achieved an increase of 22%, represent 13% of card transactions. Payments via smartphone (m-payments) have exceeded 21 billion euros, and are giving rise to a farewell to paper. The purchase of goods and services via mobile devices recorded a jump of 71% and stood at 1.7 billion. Bill payments via smartphone are running at triple digits (+172%) and transport purchases and reservations: in 2015, 6 million bus rides and 6 million car sharing rides were sold.