Samsung's facial recognition tech needs "four to five years" to become safe enough for mobile payments

Samsung's facial recognition technology which debuted on the Galaxy S8/S8+ will need more than four years to become secure enough for mobile transactions. Speaking to The Korea Herald, a source from Samsung said that high-level security actions are not suitable for the authentication method, as the technology still has some maturing to do:

In order for facial recognition to be solely used for financial transactions, it would take more than four years considering the current camera and deep learning technology levels.

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