---
title: "Mastercard testing facial recognition security app"
description: "Mastercard is testing a smartphone app that uses facial recognition to verify online purchases."
date: "2015-07-03"
modified: "2015-07-03"
authors:
  - name: "Fred Peterson"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/fredpeterson"
url: "https://futurism.com/mastercard-testing-facial-recognition-security-app"
categories:
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
  - "Facial recognition"
---

# Mastercard testing facial recognition security app

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- Users in the trial can hold their phone up as though taking a selfie to approve transactions.
- Mastercard's app asks users to blink to prove that they are human, but even this has been spoofed in the past.
- Mastercard is exploring facial recognition as an alternative to SecureCode, its security software that asks online shoppers for a password to make purchases. The company said the technology was used in three billion transactions last year.