A resident of Novorossiysk received an SMS notification in December about the debiting of 1,230 rubles from her bank account. However, the woman insisted that she had not made any purchases and had not left the house, NR reports.

After contacting the bank, the city resident learned that the transaction was carried out in one of the shopping centers of Krasnodar, and paid for using biometric data - a smile. The woman claims that she never gave permission to use biometrics for payments.

The bank told her that the probability of error in the biometric payment system was 0.005%. Based on this, the bank employee assumed that the person who paid with her "smile" could very well look like a Novorossiysk resident. The application for a refund was accepted, and the money was returned.

The woman decided to disable biometric authorization in the mobile application and advised all her friends to do the same.

Source: ngnovoros.ru

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By the end of January, State Duma deputies must consider the draft law on a single QR code in the first reading. The initiative will allow purchases to be made using the digital ruble. The bill obliges federal retail chains to accept the new type of national currency from July 1 of this year.

As the author of the initiative, Anatoly Aksakov, stated, large market participants have effectively monopolized such a service as payment for goods using a code. It is designed in such a way that a citizen uses only the development of a specific organization, without resorting to other analogues. In addition, a number of banks charge a commission from trade for using their QR codes. A single mechanism will allow retail to save on acquiring.

Meanwhile, the Duma Committee for the Protection of Competition has already prepared a negative review of the project. Deputies criticized the proposal to transfer the creation of a single QR code to the NSPK. According to them, the Constitution of the Russian Federation "does not allow economic activity aimed at monopolization and unfair competition."

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