Posted on 08/10/2022 2:18:49 PM PDT by BenLurkin
In the coming weeks, Amazon plans to expand its “Amazon One” palm reading biometric payment system to 65 Whole Foods Markets throughout California, starting with locations in Malibu, Montana Avenue, and Santa Monica. The expansion, first reported on by The Verge, marks the biggest step forward yet in Amazon’s effort to normalize biometric payments.
Amazon One works by linking a customers’ credit card to their unique palm signature. Users then hover their hand over a palm reader to pay, in this case for their overpriced groceries. Prior to the recent expansion effort, One palm readers were limited to seven Whole Foods Stores and a handful of Amazon Go and Amazon Book stores.
The ecommerce behemoth’s end goal here is to expand One’s use beyond its own business and provide the technology to third parties. Though primarily used as a contactless payment method currently, Amazon’s previously suggested One can also potentially be used as identity verification tools for offices. You can imagine a future where football stadiums, Midtown offices, concert venues, and neighborhood grocery stores partner with Amazon to roll out palm reading kiosks.
Anticipating privacy concerns, an Amazon spokesperson told Gizmodo in an email that “customer privacy is a foundational design principle for Amazon One.” The spokesperson said that while palm signatures are captured in-store the images are encrypted and stored in Amazon’s cloud.
(Excerpt) Read more at gizmodo.com ...
I’m dead serious. $5.99 a pint.
Now you have posted two racist comments.
Did they test it in a “Palm Pilot” program?
(Let’s see who remembers😚)
666, Mark of the Beast, Last Days, Rapture, Gog and Magog, Lake of Fire
End Times are here again!
Whole Foods shoppers are exactly the type who will eagerly take the Mark.
you pay to shop around other humans at Ralphs.
Agreed. It’s the place to go if you need a new car battery.
Is that all it takes to rip people off?
Even I could come up with that.
Working out the technical bugs before making it mandatory, maybe? With a transitional period where not doing it becomes increasingly inconvenient?
Agree
I live in a modest sized midwest metro area. I don’t remember anybody using apple pay and I live in a college town...
This is why the poor don't shop there.
Do you get your fortune told too? “That’ll be $152.79, and beware of a tall dark stranger.”
Update 8/3/15; 6:20 p.m. EST: Whole Foods’ Senior Media Relations Specialist Liz Burkhart responded to Eater’s request for comment by explaining that it was all a big misunderstanding:
“We appreciate you bringing this to our attention. We looked into this right away and found that this item was being carried in just one of our stores in California. It was meant to be water with the essence of vegetables and/or mushrooms to be used as broth (similar to a bone broth), which are typically made over a long period of time soaking in water. The product was made incorrectly and has since been removed from the one store where it was carried. We read your story, and would love your help clarifying that this product isn’t and never has been available for online ordering on Instacart and was only ever offered in one store.”
https://www.eater.com/2015/8/3/9090797/whole-foods-asparagus-water-wtf
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It was all just a big misunderstanding! Really!
My work computer has facial recognition (to bypass the password). I would say that it works maybe half the time. It has a little graphic “eye” on the screen that blinks at me I find a little unnerving. It does save a little time when it decides to work.
OMG...are people that stu...wait. Of course they are.
That’s your opinion and you have a right to it...
I would never use my finger print or face to access anything I didn’t own. Nor will I let any Dr office take my picture
What the hell is it for? Ignorant Tennessee redneck asking.
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