Chinese website Leiphone reports that
the e-commerce giant AliBaba will soon allow payments using the
Galaxy S5's fingerprint sensor. As we told you earlier, the S5 is the
first consumer device to support the FIDO Alliance's encryption-heavy
fingerprint authorization protocol. AliBaba's AliPay system is going
to make use of that, or similar technology later in the year, when it plans to introduce
payments with the Galaxy S5. Reportedly, other fingerprint-scanning devices,
such as the iPhone 5S and HTC One Max, are being tested as well. In addition to authenticating
transactions, AliPay will also let customers verify the product they
bought before releasing money to the seller. Interesting.
With PayPal already having implemented
FIDO-based authentication, and AliBaba following suit, we are having
a hunch that fingerprint scanners will become quite common across
mobile devices in the not-distant future. The two giants wouldn't
have bothered with the system if they thought it lacked popularity,
would they? Besides, we like the idea of using our fingerprints
instead of having to remember and look after passwords. Hopefully the
technology is as secure as it's convenient.
via GSMArena
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