Amazon’s palm reading starts at the grocery store, but it could be so much bigger

https://www.theverge.com ^ | Oct 1, 2020 | By James Vincent

[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?

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Where will you found Amazon’s palm reading, on the Coconut and Palm Oil shelves?

[Salamander]

I’ve seen movies where they cut off fingers to unlock cellphones.

[and I do NOT have ANYTHING that unlocks with my finger so please leave me be]

:D

[Salamander]

My iPhone has no idea where I am.

Every time it asks to use my location, I get crazy places hundreds of miles away.

God forbid I go over the side of the mountain and they try to track me via my phone.

They’ll be triangulating me somewhere between Omaha and Philadelphia.

[Salamander]

[jonrick46]

We’re lucky we are not in China. They have cameras everywhere and facial recognition to a perfection. Tracking technology knows where you have gone as well as where did you come from.

[Salamander]

Someone posted that it’s nearly here now, too.

And they’re perfecting identifying people with masks.

Just gets better and better.

:-\

[CurlyDave]

They are either completely unaware of the relationship of this software to the mark of the beast or completely aware and are being directed by Satan himself. I’m beginning to believe the latter.

I disagree.

Revelation clearly speaks of a mark that is added to one's face or hand.

The pattern on my hand was placed there by God and grew naturally. You can believe whatever you want about the pattern on your hand.

PLUS, why wouldn't facial recognition be in the same category? The mark in Revelation can be either on the forehead or on the hand.

[Beowulf9]

Ok. Now we’ll hear about the mark of the beast for the next few years.

[Beowulf9]

This is great!

[SaveFerris]

[Amazon’s palm reading starts at the grocery store]

Nothing to worry about. I'm sure it will all end well. /a

The new "messiah's" (false) prophet will say "all is well" for those who choose to be able to buy and sell.



Revelation 13:16-18 King James Version (KJV)

16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

[Beowulf9]

This is adorable.

[Beowulf9]

He sings to Sandy to go w/him now that the waitress lost his desire for him. How could a girl resist THAT line?

But...

Sandy the Aurora’s rising behind us
Its pier lights our carnival life forever
Oh love me tonight and I promise I’ll love you forever

Oh I mean it Sandy girl! Na nah na nah na na baby
Yeah, I promise Sandy girl, sha la la la la baby

[Salamander]

My ex took all my photos of everywhere I’d been and all my dogs and horses and among them was a photo of me standing exactly like that beside her place in Asbury Park.

[Salamander]

His first two albums were great.

“Any deeper blue and you’d be playin’ in your grave...”

I went there three times in 1980/81 and drove every road and visited every place mentioned in the songs.

Even went to the Park Place bar which burned down a few years later.

The real, original Stone Pony, as well.

It was something.

[Salamander]

The best part of that lyric is the implied question mark at “forever?”

:D

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Turning over personal biometric information to a giant corporation - what could go wrong?

I'll stick to swiping a credit card.

[Salamander]

Not much

[SaveFerris]

[The end will come like a thief in the night.]

Good reference. The rest of the world will UNite. /cough

The world will want to UNite in the face of such a crisis.



Of course there will never be a Global Government or such. Oh, wait, Daniel 7:23.

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Daniel 7:23 King James Version

23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.

[SaveFerris]

[They are either completely unaware of the relationship of this software to the mark of the beast or completely aware and are being directed by Satan himself. I’m beginning to believe the latter.]

And yet some still deny this thing is coming.

[SaveFerris]

[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.]

Heh, rather fitting, in some ways.