With the Pixel 7a appearing in the Amazon store to everyone’s surprise, the Google Pixel 7 continues to progress as a great and popular Android phone. even now it will be a much better smartphone by allowing payments when using easy unlock. In other words, we can avoid using the fingertip on the sensor so that it is the face that unlocks it.
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Facial approval for payments
As we mentioned, and via Android Headlines, payments can currently be made on many mobiles with the fingerprint sensor, whether located on the screen, as in the Google Pixel 7, or on the side, as in many other mobiles.
What is curious about this case is that it was supposed to be like in america payment is not available when using face unlock, the same would happen here in Europe. But it’s not like that, because this system can be used to make payments as we would with the fingerprint sensor.
The source is XDA, where Adam Conway mentioned on his Twitter account that they can be make up to five unprotected contactless payments before SCA (Strong Customer Authentication) is required. In fact, a link is passed where confirmed by the European Banking Authority.
Conway made payment from lock screen to use face unlock method for payment. And the fact that the use of this insecure means of payment has not been extended is due to the fact that at present Google uses it for face scanning.
This is mainly because it uses the chip Tensor G2 with machine learning added to the front camera. Now, to be able to make these payments with face unlock on Android, at the moment it can only be done with a Google Pixel 7, so if you are interested in being up to date in this regard, you know where to go for your next android phone.