One step closer to complete surveillance over who pays for what. Once the government can monitor every payment being made they'll be able to sell that data to corporations. It'll be every economist's wet dream.

This face transaction business is a bit worrying to me. I don't think I would support that myself. It's like the chip implementation or fingerprint reading system that they've got in mind for cardless transactions. The problem is many countries are still resistant to the concept of not having cash in their pockets.