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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   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Saturday August 13 2022, @07:50PM (1 child)

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> 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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  • (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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