(Natural News) Major supermarkets are set to prohibit payment using cards or cash, instead requiring people to scan their faces or fingerprints. Such a manner of payment fits perfectly into an Orwellian surveillance society. Payments giant Mastercard paved the way for this new system, launching a biometrics payment program for retailers. Users checking out goods […]

(Natural News) Financial services giant Mastercard recently introduced a system that makes use of facial recognition technology to confirm payments. The New York-based company defended its move to implement the biometric payment system amid criticism, citing two main reasons. According to Mastercard, such mode of payment facilitates shorter lines and faster checkout time. It is […]

(Natural News) The day-to-day usefulness of Bitcoin as a method of payment for everyday transactions is so limited that the North American Bitcoin Conference, which actively promotes the cryptocurrency, actually had to stop accepting it from attendees trying to make last-minute ticket purchases. The Keynote event, which is set to take place this week in […]