Mastercard rolls out payment system that uses FACIAL RECOGNITION technology

Written by Ramon Tomey

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 also more secure and more hygienic than using actual money, debit cards and credit cards.

“Once enrolled, there is no need to slow down the checkout queue searching through their pockets or bag. Consumers can simply check the bill and smile into a camera or wave their hand over a reader to pay,” Mastercard said.

Ajay Bhalla, president of Mastercard’s Cyber and Intelligence Solutions division, said: “When the pandemic happened, we saw that everybody went digital and consumers embraced new technologies. Consumers all over the world actually asked for that [biometric payment solution] for their shopping [and] their retail experiences.”

Under the biometric checkout program, shoppers can scan their faces using an app developed for the purpose. They can then assign their likeness to a bank card stored on file – automatically deducting the purchase amount.

In line with this, Mastercard piloted the facial recognition payment system at five branches of the St. Marche supermarket chain in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state. Customers who wish to try out the service can register in person at the grocery or through an app developed by Brazilian startup Payface, which has paired up with Mastercard for the endeavor.

Aside from Payface, Mastercard is also working with Japanese firms NEC and Fujitsu General for hardware solutions. According to a company spokesperson, the system is set to be rolled out in the United Kingdom.

Mastercard Senior President of Product Innovation Nili Klenoff said the company is also eyeing to introduce the system to other markets. “We’ve got the Middle East, Africa, Asia and [the rest of] Latin America lined up,” she said. “We’re really looking forward to bringing this solution everywhere.”

Privacy concerns abound with facial recognition technology

According to Klenoff, Mastercard’s facial recognition technology will come with more features like age verification for purchasing restricted store items. “[Age verification] is one, actually, that we’re beginning to explore and one that we’re really excited about,” she said.

Retailers, banks and payment firms have started embracing facial recognition to eliminate the use of physical cash and reduce fraud. The New York-based Mastercard is among them, citing a study that claimed 74 percent of the world’s population has a “positive attitude” toward biometric payment systems. However, privacy advocates have raised concerns over the technology. (Related: Facial recognition will soon identify shoplifters and ban them from stores; experts say it’s ripe for abuse.)

Lawyer Suzie Miles commented on the risks of using facial recognition for payments.

“Mastercard [itself has] recognized the data and security concerns that come with the use of biometrics. A password can be changed, your smile and wave cannot. If biometric data is hacked, then the risk of fraudulent activity could be considerably higher than current payment methods,” she told the Guardian.

Miles also expressed fear that the facial recognition systems will collect and store data that can be used to monitor and track people.

“While it seems [that] Mastercard [has] taken steps to protect and encrypt this data, as biometric payments become more commonplace, the use of such data is likely to evolve. It will inevitably become harder to protect individuals’ right to privacy.”

More related stories can be found at Surveillance.news.

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Globalists want to depopulate not just humans but also animals and plant life

Written by Ethan Huff

Now that most people are worn out on the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) plandemic narrative, the powers that be are shifting focus to the next phase of their depopulation agenda: the plants.

If the media is to be believed, there is now a “bird flu” outbreak affecting a number of American states, as well as other countries. We are told that a new avian virus is infecting chickens and turkeys, requiring that their bodies and eggs be destroyed.

Inflation is soaring while the supply chain is collapsing, and now the authorities are conveniently slaughtering food animals by the millions. Since January, more than 15 million chickens and 1.3 million turkeys have been destroyed in the United States alone.

The government is using the same fraudulent PCR tests deployed during the Fauci Flu plandemic for human testing to “diagnose” the presence of bird flu in poultry. The result is plenty of “positive” test results that are followed by the mass slaughter of food animals.

“These mass killings of poultry have led to warnings of imminent shortages of eggs and other products in a host of countries, including Germany, Australia and the United Kingdom,” reports the Daily Exposé (UK).

American states now testing wildlife for covid as part of ongoing fear campaign

Another “mystery disease” is also said to be spreading, also among wildlife. In at least six U.S. states last year, birds have been dying in large numbers. In England, Italy, Mexico and Spain, birds have also been seen dropping from the sky.

There is also a mass testing campaign happening in several U.S. states where authorities are looking for covid in wild animals such as deer. The North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission, for instance, claims it identified the presence of covid in white-tailed deer, even though the animals showed no symptoms.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) fully supports testing wild animals for covid. In fact, the agency now claims that it is “critical” for health authorities and agencies to track the spread of the Fauci Flu in the wild.

It is claimed that new “variants” beyond Omicron (Moronic) could be spreading in non-humans, and that it is up to the state to find it and eradicate it – does this mean that animals will need to start wearing a mask?

Something is also spreading “mystery illnesses” among insects and even plants. Both pesticides and LED lights have been linked to the phenomenon, as both things create radioactive stress that causes damage to life.

“Tree damage in the vicinity of 5G cell towers is becoming widespread, which isn’t a surprise given that many studies have shown how electromagnetic radiation exposure causes physiological and morphologic changes in plants,” the Exposé adds.

“In fact, what we are currently witnessing is a worldwide collapse of many ecosystems, and this is not merely an unfortunate side-effect of pollution, excessive pesticide use and new street lighting technologies but part of an orchestrated plan to reduce biodiversity on the planet and make the world a more controllable and homogeneous place.”

Soon there will be no more life on the planet if things continue on the current trajectory. The more technology “advances,” the more the planet becomes inhospitable to living things, no matter their form.

The goal is to replace everything real with everything fake. And it appears as though this agenda is getting a major fast-track boost with the war in Ukraine cover story, which is unleashing phase two of the global plandemic.

“Going forward, we will see more and more farmers pushed off the land through orchestrated bankruptcies or weather warfare,” the Exposé warns.

As the world collapses all around us, you can keep up with the latest news about it at Collapse.news.

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Not just another tracking device: Hand-implanted MICROCHIP includes ANTENNA used for tracking payments, people and possibly nanoparticles from COVID-19 injections

Written by S.D. Wells

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The new “bio-safe and secure” implantable microchip called “Walletmor” is for sale right now by a London-based company, and it’s mainly used for contact-less payments for consumer goods, but is there much more to it than that? About the size of a grain of rice and weighing about one gram, the miniscule microchip also contains an antenna that’s activated immediately once implanted in your hand or wrist.

Some implantable microchips contain a Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) nanoparticle injection verification “certificate” for proving there are billions of nanoparticles in your blood (also called a vaccine passport). Can the microchip be controlled remotely and tell the “spike protein” nanoparticles to come together to form blood clots or invade certain organs? Sounds like a conspiracy theory, but over 500 Swedes already have them embedded in their hands.

Implantable $300 digital “wallet” controlled by “Purewrist” app could be easily HACKED then manipulated by thieves and/or health terrorists

Since the new hand-implanted payment microchips have an antenna, they’re meant to be monitored, tracked, updated and controlled by remote software companies and corporations all around the world. Anyone can now download hacker apps, like the “XAPK” for Android phones, and hack various targets around the globe using the darknet. Using high-end cyber technology, XAPK allows users to hack networks, develop hacking tools, choose stealth approaches for intrusions and experience “terrorist missions” that support war.

If the hand-embedded “Walletmor” microchip app is sending and receiving data and signals to servers, the signal can be hacked. Most Americans believe hacking is a rare event, especially if they have security software on their phone, but they couldn’t be more wrong. The most frequently hacked apps include Instagram (at number one), then Snapchat and Whatsapp. Any smartphone, whether an i-Phone or Android, can easily get hacked, even with layers of advanced security activated.

Popular spying apps for online and offline tracking and hacking smartphones include pcTattletale, FlexiSPY, Spyera and XNSPY, all with very high ratings. Any app communicating with a cloud-based server can get interrupted, manipulated and data-hacked. If you have a pacemaker, it could get hacked, and possibly receive electronic impulses that affect your heart rate.

If you have received gene therapy injections for COVID-19, your entire vascular system has nanoparticles (made of graphene oxide) floating around that can be manipulated. Just like hacking data, these nanoparticles inside the body can be hacked and manipulated from a remote server through nano-communications. The technology is already in place.

In other words, installing a microchip inside your body could end up costing you your life, not just the money in your electric “wallet.” Just as big banks experience cyber attacks every day (according to JPMorgan Chase Bank), any software app can be hacked, and the raiders use highly sophisticated malware to circumvent any “security” you may think you have in place.

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Just think of the “Heartbleed bug” that allowed hackers to completely take over computers. Imagine you go to pay for something at the store with your embedded “wallet” and you suddenly suffer a minor heart attack or a stroke from a blood clot. How could this have happened if you are perfectly healthy? If hackers can do it to Gmail and WebMD, they can do it to your wrist-embedded microchip too.

Tracking and hacking gone awry: Nanotechnology is real and uses antennas for controlling intra-body networks

Scientists around the world are now suspect of COVID “vaccines” containing nano-particles that are controlled by nanodevices, also known as technological parasitism. This is not a conspiracy theory, as the technology is already in use and described vividly by scientific journals. Vaccines are described as the vectors for this installation and manipulation, as described in a recent technology review:

“The explicit mention of the type of antenna and the technology of intra-body nano-networks, would confirm that vaccines are, among other things, vectors for the installation of nanotechnology, or nanodevices in the human body.”

Cyber criminals can hack computers, phones, appliances, firewalls, modems, routers, surveillance cameras, radio transmitters, nuclear plants’ climate control systems, and yes, embedded microchips.  Guess what the most common kind of hack is? Payment card fraud.

Over 100 million Americans have already experienced hacking of their personal information on an average of four accounts per person. Because consumers now are doing so much shopping and banking via apps, hacker’s weapons are more numerous, easier to come by, cheaper to buy and more sophisticated than ever. Consider THAT before you get a microchip embedded under your skin or billions of nanoparticles injected into your bloodstream.

Tune your internet dial to Computing.news for updates on hackers hacking into software that can affect your health and livelihood.

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Suddenly Bill Gates confirms what we’ve been saying all along: Covid is “kind of like the flu” with a “low fatality rate”

Written by Ethan Huff

 

Billionaire eugenicist Bill Gates is finally admitting that he was dead wrong about the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19).

The Microsoft co-founder says that he and other self-proclaimed “authorities” on the matter overreacted to the virus, which is not nearly as much of a threat as he originally claimed.

“It wasn’t until early February, when I was in a meeting, that experts of the foundation said, ‘there’s no way’ that Covid-19 could have been contained,” Gates recently stated.

“At that point, we didn’t really understand the fatality rate. We didn’t understand that it’s a fairly low fatality rate, and that it’s a disease mainly of the elderly, kind of like the flu, although it’s a bit different than that.”

Early on, Gates unveiled a “Mark of the Beast” implant technology to be incorporated into “vaccines” for the virus.

“That was a pretty scary period where the world didn’t go on alert, including the United States, nearly as fast as it needed to,” Gates still insists.

By reclassifying covid as just another “flu” virus, the powers that be plan to push everyone to take seasonal covid shots

By the time the “Omicron” (Moronic) variant of the Fauci Flu appeared, the jabs were suddenly no longer as effective as they once were, Gates says.

“Once Omicron came along, the vaccine is not reducing transmission, hardly at all, particularly about three or four months after you take the vaccine,” the king of vaccines says.

In essence, the Fauci Flu is just the flu. Gates admits it, and so does the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

According to FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, Principal Deputy Commissioner Janet Woodcock and Dr. Peter Marks, the agency’s top vaccine official, the Chinese Virus will be in circulation “for the foreseeable future” and must be accepted as just another virus.

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The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) will classify it as such, and the world should treat it as just another form of influenza, the “experts” now say.

The reason they are changing their tune, of course, is because they now want people to take annual covid shots just like annual flu shots. Covid injections are intended to become a seasonal ritual, in other words.

“Widespread vaccine- and infection-induced immunity, combined with the availability of effective therapeutics, could blunt the effects of future outbreaks,” the FDA says.

“Nonetheless, it is time to accept that the presence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is the new normal.”

“It will likely circulate globally for the foreseeable future, taking its place alongside other common respiratory viruses such as influenza. And it likely will require similar annual consideration for vaccine composition updates in consultation with the [FDA].”

Annual covid shots will ensure that Big Pharma receives a steady stream of new income from state and local governments, which will likely be expected to buy the shots using taxpayer money in order to administer for “free.”

“The need for annual vaccinations in perpetuity is convenient for the pharmaceutical companies,” wrote a reader at the Daily Wire.

“I think a better alternative is to encourage people to lose weight and get in shape, and treat illness with therapeutics. The problem is that the cashflow isn’t as good as vaccinations so those options won’t be considered as serious. (Also, do your best not to get old.)”

“We knew from the very beginning that once contracted, you had a 99%+ chance of recovering,” wrote another. “Not to mention Gates is and was financing the WHO to make sure it was called a pandemic to force government mandates while he laughed all the way to the bank.”

The latest news about Chinese Virus injections can be found at ChemicalViolence.com.

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Vaccine passports pave the way for digital identity system, warns Nick Corbishley

Written by Ramon Tomey

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Finance and economics journalist Nick Corbishley warned that Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine passports pave the way for a more pervasive digital identity system. He told “The HighWire” host Del Bigtree that this digital ID system could be linked to bank accounts in the future.

Bigtree played footage of news reports announcing the end of vaccine passports in the U.S. and other countries around the world. He also played speeches from leaders such as Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson rescinding proof of vaccination mandates in their respective jurisdictions.

“It feels like the wheels are coming off of this crazy ship we’ve all been stuck on for some time. But as we watch the news, I wonder: Should we be excited? Complacent? Attentive? Maybe this wasn’t just about trying to get everybody vaccinated around the planet. Perhaps the vaccine was just the tip of the spear [for] an agenda to create a reason to track all of us,” said Bigtree.

The British-born Corbishley commented on Bigtree’s remarks. “I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I think we need to be more vigilant than ever right now. What we are being told does not coincide with what is happening behind the scenes. We need to be watching what our politicians do, rather than just listening to what they say.”

According to Corbishley, several countries covertly launched their respective digital ID programs alongside their repeal of proof of vaccination mandates. He cited several countries – including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand – that implemented their respective systems for different reasons. The U.K. justified its decision by mentioning the need for employers to verify their workers’ identities, added Corbishley.

“This digital identity wallet will essentially include everything, as well as probably your vaccination status. If this takes root [and] becomes part of normality, then it’s not going to be a very nice future for the rest of us.” (Related: Diabolical — How digital ID will control your life.)

More dangers if digital ID is linked to bank accounts

Corbishley told Bigtree: “One of the scariest aspects is this idea of central banks [controlling] digital currency, this idea of linking up digital identity to [the] financial system. That should be a warning to us all.” He cited incidents that happened in Canada and Russia as examples of the risks associated with connecting digital identity to bank accounts.

In Canada, the government froze several bank accounts linked to the Freedom Convoy protests. The country’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, who concurrently serves as the finance minister, confirmed the move. The freezing of bank accounts, done in cooperation with law enforcement, sought to penalize those involved in the protest organized by truckers against COVID-19 mandates. “The consequences are real and they will bite,” said Freeland.

Meanwhile, Apple Pay and Google Pay suspended their services in Russia in response to the country’s assault on Ukraine. As a result, many Russians were unable to access both payment systems – which are used to pay for tickets on the Moscow Metro train system. Irish journalist Jason Corcoran confirmed the development in a tweet, writing: “Apple Pay and Google Pay no longer work on Moscow’s metro system, leading to long queues as people fumble about for cash.”

“This is a scary thing as we move toward a kind of digital money system, which is what our central banks are certainly trying to do right now. The idea of this being connected to our digital identity gives them an enormous power to cut us off from the economy. That is something that probably terrifies me the most, and it’s something that is becoming more and more possible as technologies evolve,” concluded Corbishley.

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