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"Amazon plans to install its palm payment technology at all Whole Foods Markets nationwide by the end of 2023. The checkout software called Amazon One allows customers to pay using the palm of their hand."
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Next time you shop at Whole Foods, scan your hand to pay thanks to new Amazon tech
Whole Foods' new checkout technology allows customers to pay with the palm of their hand. Here's how it works

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Here in Venezuela there has been a biometric payment system (fingerprint) for a few years now. Called "Biopago", this system belongs to the main state bank (Banco de Venezuela) and has the widest population coverage. This system allows to make a payment by placing the fingerprint and get paid not only from the bank of origin of the device. But from any bank in the country's banking system, whether state or private. It has increased its reach lately and may have a greater use. Because the device is seen in many more commercial premises. And for many it seems "more comfortable and easier" to make the payment this way. Only now the biggest bank, the State, has more data on the consumption of the users and you know what an authoritarian government like the Venezuelan one will want to do.
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Which just goes to show how effective it will be. There's a bit in Chuck Palanuiks "Fight Club" that isn't in the movie. One of the characters is doing a catering job in a horrible and classist woman's mansion. To teach her a lesson he leaves a note next to her very expensive perfume collection, comprised of 100s of bottles of designer perfume: " I pissed in one of these bottles, good luck guessing which one" She ends up throwing every bottle in the trash. It's later revealed that the person didn't actually piss in a bottle at all.
I don't get this. Aside from LLMs, it seems like most of our recent technological "innovations" are barely marginal increases in convenience for drastic intrusions into our privacy. Is it that hard to pull your phone out of your pocket and pay with that? Hell, you probably have it out already and need to stick it in your pocket to use the palm reader. ๐Ÿ™„ View quoted note โ†’