Amazon is bringing palm-scanning payment system to Whole Foods stores

Re:Amazon is bringing palm-scanning payment system to Whole ... by frumper on Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:11PM (#26906858)

Again, it's not that this specific issue can't be dealt with by canceling your palm print or convenient checkout. You're just left with not being able to safely register your palm print with any company if your biometric data gets stolen. I can envision a world where it doesn't take a master counterfeiter to 3d printer a palm print that gets through the scanner and a database of stolen palm print data people can buy and trade like they currently do with stolen credit card numbers.

The issue is once your biometric data is compromised you have no recourse to regenerate it. Your solution is you just don't get to participate in these features anymore.

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Re:Amazon is bringing palm-scanning payment system to Whole ... by NovemberWhiskey on Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:19PM (#26906970)

Yes, that's right. But what's the problem?

You're back in the same place you are already. If this putative palm print duplication technology becomes widely available then people will stop building technology that depends on palm prints.

As has been repeatedly pointed out, the risk lies with the merchants and the issuing banks (at least in the U.S.) for credit card payments.

EDIT: and, at least in the U.S. again, no-one is going to be able to force you to use this technology; there will always have to be an alternative mechanism because there are people with no hands, and a system that required them would be a massive ADA liability.

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