Why your face could be set to replace your bank card
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> "uses the shaka sign, pictured, if she wants to tip 20%"
Would you be able to hold a f*u sign and get a discount for privacy conscious behavour?
And don't try tell me that the facial recognition can't be fooled. Every biometric ID system I know of was broken eventually and keep in mind that these systems might sometimes be unattended or deployed by untrustworthy people so the attack surface is even greater.
Can't wait until we go back to "tell the cashier your name and they phone the bank at the end of the day"......
That’s exactly why it’s a problem. The phones, at least the good ones, have better security and store the face map securely and allow it to be used for specific purposes in a secure manner. The faces being all over the Internet is also the problem why such systems are susceptible to attacks.
> It's faster, more convenient, and safer... and you don't have to worry about leaving your phone or cards at home."
It may be convenient. It may be fast. But it’s certainly not safer.
I worry that this will become the future, where users might as well have a permanent tattoo on their foreheads saying “Please rob me”. I also wonder who’ll bear the time and money lost due to fraud and theft. “Someone stole your face, please change it” doesn’t sound like a solution.
I guess the social pressure is much higher if everybody in your group does a "chacka" sign...
99% of the time everyone around me was tipping while paying the waiter at the table. You give 10 EUR note on a 9.10 bill and say “Stimmt so.”
>Europe and the UK, where tipping is an optional gesture and not a form of the customer subsidising the restaurant's wage bill
It actually changed my opinion on tipping a bit. Before getting this 'behind the scenes' insight, I'd never bothered leaving tips as I thought 'what's so special about waiters & waitresses that they're expected to get extra gratuities for doing their jobs, when the rest of us don't?'
I don't know if the situation has changed since then, as this was before the introduction of the minimum wage. But, back then, tipping was definitely used as a way of covering some of the wage bill.
>Tipping is a cultural thing
In other countries, it's seen as almost obligatory. Personal example:
Many moons ago, I was in charge of a large party of students who went to Budapest on an exchange visit. On our first night there, we found a quiet pub near our hostel and settled in for the night. There were only one or two other customers, so we were contributing to them having a really good night, with the kind of takings they'd probably only see on a weekend, usually. We weren't being overly loud or misbehaving, either.
In spite of this, the bar manager and his staff were glaring at us and being really sullen, every time we ordered drinks. I thought it might be because they didn't like 'foreigners' but then one of the locals, who spoke English, told me "They think you're really rude because you're not giving them tips". He went on to explain and it did indeed transpire that the norm in Hungary [or Budapest, anyway] is to give a 10% tip on practically anything you buy, regardless of whether you're served with a smile, or have your food /booze / shopping / whatever slammed down in front of you with barely a glance.
I actually found it quite annoying after a while. If you saw something at XXXX forints, you'd have to mentally add on 10% to the price each time, to work out what you were expected to pay for it. I just thought "If you want 3300 forints for it, then price it at 3300 forints, not 3000!"
There's an emoji of it: (U+270C - in case HN strips it)