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Title    Amazon's Palm Payments Arrive in More Than 65 Whole Foods Stores in California
Date    Saturday August 13 2022, @05:48AM
Author    hubie
Topic   
from the you-can-also-lift-the-imprint-off-of-my-forehead dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/08/11/2347227

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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  1. "upstart" - https://soylentnews.org/~upstart/
  2. "Amazon's palm payments arrive in more than 65 Whole Foods stores in California" - https://www.engadget.com/amazon-one-palm-payment-whole-foods-california-195712253.html
  3. "palm-reading payment technology" - https://www.engadget.com/amazons-contactless-payments-come-to-a-whole-foods-store-in-seattle-084516381.html
  4. "The company" - https://one.amazon.com/
  5. "concert venues and sport stadiums" - https://www.engadget.com/amazon-one-sports-stadiums-music-venues-083245937.html
  6. "mounting backlash" - https://www.engadget.com/amazon-one-palm-scanning-red-rocks-amphitheater-denver-arts-and-venues-153114212.html
  7. "grill company leadership" - https://www.engadget.com/senators-amazon-palm-print-data-investigation-134424558.html
  8. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=56371
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