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by yingw787 2620 days ago
Congrats to Touchtech! Acquisitions are always exciting :)

I'm wondering what this means for multi-factor authentication with regards to payments. Why bio-metrics instead of a physical security key and U2F? Convenience? Customer reach?

If the U.S. implements something like SCA in the future, would it be likely that biometrics will win out over PINs or security keys, given different legal protections for both (https://pilotonline.com/news/local/crime/article_25373eb2-d7...)? What might this mean for future legal precedents regarding biometrics?