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Mastercard Pushes Biometrics Even Harder on Consumers in Increasingly Cashless UK
The roll-out of biometric-authenticated payments is merely the latest example of the accelerating encroachment of biometrics into everyday life. But a global push back is gathering.
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The Better Than Cash Alliance, (BTCA), a UN-hosted partnership of governments (all of them in the so-called “Global South”), companies and international organizations funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Citi, Ford Foundation, MasterCard, Omidyar Network, the U.S. Agency for International Development and Visa Inc, has been promoting cashless initiatives in Africa since its foundation in 2012. Its mission, in its own words, is “to accelerate the transition from cash to digital payments globally.”