We all know the struggles that come with perfecting those selfies and the personal glee emitted when we have finally achieved the goal, but it seems now those selfies will have a lot more value for a lot less effort. Soon, MasterCard will be debuting a new app where your selfie can verify your idenitication before purchasing things.
Bustle reports that the new MasterCard app (still a work in progress) will allow customers to make credit card payments with their selfies and fingerprints used as identification. If you decide to buy something online, your phone will receive an alert and you can use your MasterCard to pay for your purchases, not by entering in card information, but by simply looking in your camera and blinking, or scanning your fingerprint (a feature already available for iPhone 6 users).
In the video below with CNN Money, MasterCard Chief Product Security Office Ajay Bhalla gives a walkthrough on how to use the app.
According to WFSB Hartford, the app should make its debut appearance sometime next year. But until then, as Bhalla explains, “Passwords are a pain.” While sometimes you may forget a password, you’ll always remember how to take a selfie!