{"id":214470,"date":"2020-10-03T06:34:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T06:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=214470"},"modified":"2020-10-06T07:09:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T07:09:49","slug":"amazon-announces-mail-surveillance-and-palm-scanner-for-point-of-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=214470","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Announces Mail Surveillance And Palm Scanner For Point Of Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aaron Kesel \u2013 Renegade Tribune Oct 2, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Amazon has announced a new product for its Ring subsidiary company, a mail surveillance system. They also went a step beyond and released a new palm scanner point-of-sale system.<\/span><\/p>\n

Amazon announced its rollout of Amazon One devices that use a customer\u2019s palm prints for identification and payment at physical retail stores. The devices are presently available for use in Seattle locations for Amazon Go stores, and the company wants to expand it to any retailer willing to partner with the mega-giant.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to an\u00a0announcement<\/strong><\/span><\/a> by Dilip Kumar, the vice president of Amazon\u2019s physical retail business, the Amazon One device creates even less payment friction in the company\u2019s cashier-less retail stores. Instead of being identified by an account on their mobile phones, customers can simply walk into the store, scan their palm, shop for products, and the purchases will be automatically charged to a credit card.<\/span><\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Amazon told Recode<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>it has \u201cno plans to use transaction information from third party locations for Amazon advertising or other purposes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

However, Amazon says it wants to use the tech to spread to third-party partners, and payments aren\u2019t the only function it has in mind for the system. Other use-cases discussed include a customer entering a location like a stadium, badging into work, and loyalty cards. It brings to mind a dystopian view of society.<\/span><\/p>\n

If the Amazon One hand scanner wasn\u2019t enough, Amazon Ring just announced that it will be releasing a new in-home drone and mail monitoring system using a sensor. Activist Post<\/em> reported<\/a><\/strong><\/span> last week on the in-home drone, noting how the autonomous drone \u201cAlways Home Cam\u201d zooms around inside your home to give you a perspective of any room you want when you\u2019re not home. The drone can also be commanded to fly on-demand or programmed to fly when a disturbance is detected by its linked Ring Alarm system. Once it\u2019s done flying, the Always Home Cam returns to its dock to charge its battery like a good robot.<\/span><\/p>\n

The latter mail system is equally as privacy-invasive as a camera that flies around your home. The $30 Mailbox Sensor is similar to the Ring Motion Sensor accessory for Ring lighting products. The new Mailbox Sensor is a little sensor that relies on Amazon\u2019s Sidewalk technology<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to extend the range of your Wi-Fi network, reports<\/strong><\/span><\/a> CNET.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Ring Mailbox Sensor is designed to send an alert to your phone when the door is opened; and it\u2019s supposed to work with other Ring products, such as using Ring doorbells and outdoor cameras to record footage when the mailbox is opened. This means that the cameras will trigger to record the mailbox when the sensor is tripped.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ring is really fulfilling its goal of becoming a blanket surveillance system.<\/span><\/p>\n

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