Posted on 10/04/2020 7:40:29 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Earlier this week, Amazon unveiled Amazon One: new technology for its Amazon Go stores that lets shoppers pay for their groceries by scanning the palm of their hand. By analyzing the shape of your hand and the unique configuration of veins under your skin, Amazon says its technology can verify your identity the same way facial recognition does.
Although Amazon One will initially be used for payments only, it’s clear the tech giant has much bigger ambitions for this hardware. In the future, it says, Amazon One could not only be used for shopping but as a replacement for tickets at music and sporting events, and as an alternative to your office keycard, letting you scan in with a swipe of your hand. In other words, Amazon One isn’t a payment technology. It’s an identity technology, and one that could give Amazon more reach into your life than ever before.
Understandably, some experts are skeptical about Amazon’s claims of convenience, and worry about a company with a spotty track record on privacy becoming the controller of a new identity standard. Whether it’s Amazon’s use of biased facial recognition algorithms or its ambitions to grow a network of home surveillance cameras, this is an organization that has proved many times that individual privacy is not always its biggest concern. Is it a good idea if Amazon knows exactly who you are from the palm of your hand?
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How far does my Lifeline of Credit extend?
If I didn’t know better, I’d say you like trouble...
:)
If I really wanted trouble, I’d make ‘em a fruit bowl.
Hey Amazon! Look on Uranus for my chip.
Yeah, no.
How long until rich people have their hands chopped off during muggings?
/what could *possibly* go wrong
Can’t wait...
I just watched some movie where the guy kept hacking off dead mans’ hands until he found the one that opened the door.
This should be good.
Good thing I walk around looking like a sketchy, potentially crazy Goth beggar, then.
:D
Great for voting right?......
This has been around for ages, all of South Korea’s banking system is based on palm vein technology, its more accurate than facial, and it will be used for air travel in Korea too.
“...on the forehead or in the hand...”
Bezos listened while the Terminator laid it all down. Skynet. Judgment Day, the history of things to come. It’s not every day that you find out you’re responsible for 3 billion deaths. He took it pretty well.
Soon they will know who you are by the way you walk around the store. You won’t have to do anything except push an OK button.
Mercedes had an option of fingerprint starting feature. Some thieves carjacked an owner, realized they needed his fingerprint, took his finger with them.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4396831.stm
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