Stephanie Warren, left, and Betty Olson Stefanie Warren and Betty Olson reappointed to the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board The preceding information was gathered from San Diego State’s Daily Aztec and Kiosk Marketplace. “It’s a single digital identity so that you never need anything else to prove that you’re you, other than your face.” “Hopefully, you can use that same account to pay at your house without any keys, to get into a Padres game, your medical records on your face, pharmaceutical products on your face,” Costello said. “For our product to be truly adopted, we need to be in the place that students want to go, so location is a huge factor.”Ĭostello said he hopes that 10 years in the future - with the Pop id account - people will use it to access basically anything. “Right now we’re on five campuses, San Diego State, University of Santa Barbara, Chapman, Pasadena City College, and the fifth being USC (University of Southern California),” Costello said. “This fee is significantly lower than the vast majority of processing companies.”Ĭustomers must create an account on PopID and enter their credit/debit card information to use the payment system, known as PopPay. “Currently, our only fee to merchants is our processing fee of 1.5 percent plus 11 cents,” said Tom Costello, a PopID senior project manager. When he got a call from a representative from PopID, a provider of facial recognition technology, he thought it would be a good time to introduce the technology.Īllowing customers to “pay with their faces” would make it easier, he reasoned, and the technology did not require a big investment on his part Lee was forced to take on a lot of debt before reopening his 1,000-square-foot restaurant with a limited staff in January. Restaurateur Dennis Lee, owner of sushi restaurant Pokedon (Japanese for “Sushi Bowl”), near San Diego State University, believes facial recognition technology will help his business recover after being closed for 10 months on account of COVID-19. Facial recognition technology comes to San Diego

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