Report: PayPal investigates internal authentication

San Jose, Calif. – Nothing is more personal than the inside of your body, and that is where PayPal reportedly envisions the next frontier of biometric user authentication. According to the Wall Street Journal, PayPal is investigating the feasibility of embeddable, injectable, and ingestible devices to identify users for mobile and online transactions.



The devices being researched include brain implants and ingestible computers whose batteries run on stomach acid. Other possibilities include silicon chips inserted beneath the skin, ingestible capsules that verify unique internal characteristics. Data would be encrypted to prevent hacking.