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Amazon's Palm Payments Arrive in More Than 65 Whole Foods Stores in California

posted by hubie on Saturday August 13 2022, @05:48AM   
from the you-can-also-lift-the-imprint-off-of-my-forehead dept.

upstart writes:

Amazon's palm payments arrive in more than 65 Whole Foods stores in California:

Amazon's palm-reading payment technology will soon be available in many more Whole Foods stores. The company is rolling out Amazon One to more than 65 Whole Foods shops in California, starting with Malibu, Montana Avenue and Santa Monica locations in Los Angeles. More stores in LA, Orange County, Sacramento, the San Francisco Bay Area and Santa Cruz will come online in the "coming weeks."

[...] Third-party adoption may be trickier. While Amazon has touted plans to use One at concert venues and sport stadiums, there's been a mounting backlash over worries palm data could be misused or stolen. Amazon has maintained that it holds info in secure, One-exclusive cloud storage, but politicians have still been concerned enough to grill company leadership over its practices. There's a reluctance to trust biometric tech like this, and the Whole Foods expansion isn't guaranteed to assuage people's fears.

Since this is just testing the technology in a few selected areas, you can consider this a palm pilot.

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• What could possibly go wrong? What could possibly go wrong? (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2022, @06:27AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2022, @06:27AM (#1266411)

  My wife got a new sofa and easy chair for her birthday. A new coffee table was called for, so I am building one from scratch.

  A few days ago, I started sanding down the table using old school sanding blocks and my bare hands.

  My finger tips are getting quite smooth, and yesterday my iphone stopped recognizing my fingerprint. I must enter the PIN to unlock it.

  True story.

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  What's worse is I know what all those palms have been doing.

  • Re:What could possibly go wrong? (Score: 2) by kazzie on Monday August 15 2022, @05:27AM

    by kazzie (5309) on Monday August 15 2022, @05:27AM (#1266692)

    Just use that Flashy Thing that Agent K gave you, and you won't need to worry about it any more.

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• Palm reading? I can do that too. (Score: 4, Touché) by Opportunist on Saturday August 13 2022, @02:16PM

  by Opportunist (5545) on Saturday August 13 2022, @02:16PM (#1266436)

  I predict you're gonna get spam related some of the junk you just bought.

• Is there a second factor of authentication? Is there a second factor of authentication? (Score: 5, Insightful) by progo on Saturday August 13 2022, @04:39PM (2 children)

  by progo (6356) on Saturday August 13 2022, @04:39PM (#1266454) Homepage

  I assume your handprint will open this door whether you are conscious or not.

  - Data, A Matter of Time [fandom.com]

  • Re:Is there a second factor of authentication? Re:Is there a second factor of authentication? (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Saturday August 13 2022, @07:50PM (1 child)

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Saturday August 13 2022, @07:50PM (#1266475) Homepage

    "conscious" pertains to the "something you know" realm, not the "something you are" one.

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    Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves

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    • Re:Is there a second factor of authentication? (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday August 15 2022, @05:58PM

      by Freeman (732) on Monday August 15 2022, @05:58PM (#1266799) Journal

      In the event that your unconscious self can open a door/spend money with your palm print. It's all semantics.

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      Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"

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