Amazon introduced palm payment technology

Amazon's retail development team has unveiled a new biometric device,

which will allow customers to pay for items in Amazon Go stores using the palm of their hand.The company introduced the contactless Amazon One, a scanner to which the user first bindspayment card, and then attaches the device to the palm of the hand to associate the "palm signature" with the payment mechanism.After that, the user can pay by holding the palm of their hand over the Amazon One device for a second.

By "palm signature," engineers mean its individual features — lines, curves on the hands, and vein patterns. First, the new technology will be implementedto Amazon stores in Seattle, then to other stores.The company is looking for potential customers who may be interested in the technology.

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Amazon also notes that images are encryptedand are sent to a secure area in the cloud, where signatures are generated from customers' palms. There are no specific details about this process yet. The history of the use of Amazon's biometric products is controversial - for example, the company sold biometric facial recognition services to law enforcement agencies in the United States. Its facial recognition technology is also the subject of a data privacy lawsuit - their technology is heavily used by the US police.

Amazon One uses hardware toscanning images with computer vision algorithms. Customers don't need Amazon accounts, a phone number and bank card are enough. Users will be able to delete biometric data from the company's database if they no longer want to use the service.

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