Amazon One Pays $10 For a Palm Scan

Last fall, Amazon began testing a palm-scan payment system. Initially, the devices were set up in two locations in Seattle, but the offer quickly expanded to 53 stores of the company's US chains - Amazon 4-star, Amazon Books, Amazon Go and Whole Foods Market. Customer enthusiasm, however, seems to me limited at best, as the American giant encourages customers to register biometric data with shopping vouchers worth 10 dollars.

The system seems convenient and easy to use. However, questions about privacy and security are open. Source: nairametrics.

Amazon One works on a different principle than fingerprints. No touching of the device is required, and the customer is recognized based on the shape of the hand and details of its structure, including the arrangement of veins. On its blog Amazon praises the system as secure and modern:

But the idea of scanning your entire hand and entrusting it to a corporation along with your credit card information may raise some privacy and security concerns. There are no perfectly secure systems, so there is a risk that one day the scan will fall into the wrong hands, and unlike a password or credit card number - we will not be able to change it. Albert Fox Cahn from Surveillance Technology Oversight Project doesn't hide his pessimism in his statement for TechCrunch:

Even without a palm scan the company knows a lot about its regular customers - what they eat, what they wear, what they read, what they watch in their free time (Amazon Prime and Twitch) and in the US also what drugs they take. But apparently this is still not enough, especially if the price of additional information is only 10 dollars.

1. Amazon One - official website
2. Amazon One Introduction
3. Amazon Tests the Option to Pay Using Your Palm

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