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Amazon's New App Lets You Scan Your Palm to Pay at Whole Foods, Panera Bread and More
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Do you wear gloves everywhere? If you’re a normal human, your handprint can be lifted anywhere anytime by anyone.
I bet no one ever uses this.
They literally have run out of useful ideas and are now on the crack pipe.
They literally have run out of useful ideas and are now on the crack pipe.
Should be faster then Apple pay. Now I mostly tap to pay using credit cards due to speed and not as fussy as Apple pay. It would be nice if they standardized the location of the tap.
People don’t have a digital copy of my handprint. Huge difference.
The Me & 23 breach is a great example also.
9 weeks later: "Huge AWS data breach allows hackers to download all palm prints of users"
Completely ignores the fact that retina scans are much more individual and secure. But that's Amazon.
Great. I thought invasive technology had reached its limit.
But now, through the twin sciences of AI and palmistry, Amazon will be able to know my future simply because I shop there.
You think ad placement is eerie now? Wait until you start getting ads for Pampers when you don't even know you're pregnant! Your heart line knows.
But now, through the twin sciences of AI and palmistry, Amazon will be able to know my future simply because I shop there.
You think ad placement is eerie now? Wait until you start getting ads for Pampers when you don't even know you're pregnant! Your heart line knows.
This is crazy. Even if you are willing to trust Amazon, they are using a SINGLE factor to identify you-- both to identify who you are AND prove your identity. That means it's possible that someone enters their handprint, and the AI "mathes" it to a completely other person in the system. Unscrupulous people will choose NOT to register, but then nevertheless try out the scanner to see if the system charges some rando.
I shop at WF, and when it was installed decided to give it a whirl. Was fascinated with the technology. It was super easy to setup, and checkout is a breeze and fast! I prefer this method much better than having to pull out my wallet, or a phone to use AP.
This'll be great!
All I've got to do is get a palm print from a rich ******, copy it onto silicone, then I'll get free food! I wonder how hard it would be to scan Beeszass himself.
All I've got to do is get a palm print from a rich ******, copy it onto silicone, then I'll get free food! I wonder how hard it would be to scan Beeszass himself.
I’m going to help all you Zoomers understand fr fr no cap on god!
See, this is why the looters and shoplifters are allowed to run rampant. It’s intentional so the only “solution” is hard coded to the individual - eye scan, palm, maybe a convenient chip and a digital ID.
This will stop the thievery and chaos! Your masters create a “problem” then offer you the “solution”; Hegelian dialectic playing out live right in front of your eyes.
See, this is why the looters and shoplifters are allowed to run rampant. It’s intentional so the only “solution” is hard coded to the individual - eye scan, palm, maybe a convenient chip and a digital ID.
This will stop the thievery and chaos! Your masters create a “problem” then offer you the “solution”; Hegelian dialectic playing out live right in front of your eyes.
Which is EXACTLY why you should NEVER use this.
Your handprint isn't linked to your bank account. Use this and it will be.
So do I. The first thing you lose using amazon one vs using the watch is privacy: in order to pay by scanning your palm you first had to share you actual card info with amazon by entering it in your amazon profile. Furthermore, now amazon has your hand print too.
lol at anyone eating at Panera in 2024 - that s*** has been garbage for many years ever since their corporate takeover
Amazon today launched the Amazon One app, which is designed to allow customers to scan their palms to make device-free purchases at Whole Foods, Panera Bread, and 150 third-party locations in stadiums, airports, fitness centers, and convenience stores.
Prior to the launch of the app, signing up for Amazon One had to be done in a physical location with an Amazon One device. The app lets customers create a profile, take a photo of their palm, and add a payment method. Finishing sign-up will still require an initial interaction with an Amazon One machine.
Amazon One can be used for payment, entry to venues, age verification, and loyalty rewards. The service uses generative AI to match a camera phone photo of a person's palm to near-infrared imagery from an Amazon One scanner.
The AI system is able to pair palm and vein imagery to create a unique, numerical vector representation that is used for identity matching. Amazon says that it is 99.99 percent accurate.
Palm images taken with the app are encrypted and sent to a secure Amazon One domain in the AWS cloud. Amazon says the service is convenient for consumers and businesses, and that it sees many repeat users at Whole Foods. Amazon One can be downloaded from the App Store for free. [Direct Link]
Article Link: Amazon's New App Lets You Scan Your Palm to Pay at Whole Foods, Panera Bread and More
Would this work with callus hands from not working or hairy hands? Asking for a friend. 😂
Callus hands I don’t know, but with hairy hands it should work since the hair is on the back of the hand, never on the palm.
I saw these palm scanners show up at our local WholeFoods about six months ago and I immediately found myself wondering who would use this and why?
Personally I shop at this store 5 times a week because it’s walkable to my house and I’ve never seen anyone use it. I thought for sure this was going to be a failed experiment and then I read here that they rolled it out to all stores!
One poster here mentioned that it auto ties things to your Amazon account for prime deals and doesn’t require you to hit the “Pay with Card” button. Great, but why can’t Amazon just know I’m a prime user based on my CC and give me the discount? And why not just have the terminal be ready to accept payment at any time to avoid having to hit the “Pay with Card” button?
The final benefit of not having to carry a card is kind of silly and a fringe use case. Almost everyone carries their phones or watches and have Apple Pay setup, so you don’t have to carry a card anyhow. And the idea that you’d lose or have stolen your wallet, your iPhone, your Apple Watch and then need to immediately buy something at WF is so fringe as to not be worth the investment in this technology.
And all of those considerations are without even considering the privacy issues surrounding your biometric data and Amazon. Classic example of a technology solution searching for a problem.
Personally I shop at this store 5 times a week because it’s walkable to my house and I’ve never seen anyone use it. I thought for sure this was going to be a failed experiment and then I read here that they rolled it out to all stores!
One poster here mentioned that it auto ties things to your Amazon account for prime deals and doesn’t require you to hit the “Pay with Card” button. Great, but why can’t Amazon just know I’m a prime user based on my CC and give me the discount? And why not just have the terminal be ready to accept payment at any time to avoid having to hit the “Pay with Card” button?
The final benefit of not having to carry a card is kind of silly and a fringe use case. Almost everyone carries their phones or watches and have Apple Pay setup, so you don’t have to carry a card anyhow. And the idea that you’d lose or have stolen your wallet, your iPhone, your Apple Watch and then need to immediately buy something at WF is so fringe as to not be worth the investment in this technology.
And all of those considerations are without even considering the privacy issues surrounding your biometric data and Amazon. Classic example of a technology solution searching for a problem.
Yep. Odds of me going grocery shopping without my phone, also basically zero.
Not to mention that your amazon profile that your hand palm is linked to includes ALL of your real credit card info which you had to store on Amazon’s servers because they don’t even support any other form of payment such as paypal, apple pay, google wallet, etc.