MasterCard wants people to verify purchases with selfies

In what may be the first practical use for selfies in history, MasterCard will soon allow some of its customers to verify their purchases by taking a picture of their face, rather than entering a password. This is good news, because not only does everyone hate passwords, many people put their security at risk by being too lazy to remember a secure password, and coming up with something stupid, like “123456” or “password.” These “selfie payments” will only be available to users in the United Kingdom at first, but will expand to eleven other countries in Europe and North America this summer.