{"id":232721,"date":"2021-04-26T07:25:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T07:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=232721"},"modified":"2021-04-27T07:04:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T07:04:00","slug":"amazon-is-bringing-palm-scanning-payment-system-to-whole-foods-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=232721","title":{"rendered":"Amazon is bringing palm-scanning payment system to Whole Foods stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Annie Palmer \u2013 CNBC Apr 21, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4>Amazon is bringing its palm-scanning payment system to a Whole Foods store in Seattle, the company announced Wednesday, with rollout planned for other locations.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>Previously, the technology was available only at a dozen of Amazon\u2019s physical stores.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>Amazon said it has signed up thousands of users of the system.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/AMZN\">Amazon<\/a> <\/span>is expanding its palm-scanning payment system to a Whole Foods store in Seattle, the company announced Wednesday, the first of many planned rollouts at other locations.<\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/09\/29\/amazon-palm-payment-system-amazon-one-announced.html\">Amazon One<\/a><\/span>, which debuted in September and is currently in use at about a dozen Amazon physical stores, allows shoppers to pay for items by placing their palm over a scanning device. The first time shoppers use the kiosk, they have to insert a credit card to link it with their palm print. But after that, shoppers can pay simply by holding their hand over the kiosk.<\/h4>\n<h4>Amazon One is distinct from the company\u2019s Just Walk Out technology, which allows shoppers to pick up items and walk out of the store without going through a checkout line. However the two technologies can work together, and Amazon employs them both at its cashierless Amazon Go stores.<\/h4>\n<h4>Amazon will initially roll out Amazon One at the Whole Foods in Seattle\u2019s Capitol Hill neighborhood, not far from the company\u2019s headquarters, before launching the system at seven Seattle-area Whole Foods in coming months.<\/h4>\n<h4>The palm-scanning technology will be offered as just one of many payment options at participating Whole Foods stores, Amazon said, and won\u2019t impact store employees\u2019 job responsibilities.<\/h4>\n<h4>Amazon acquired the grocery chain in 2017 for more than $13 billion.<\/h4>\n<h4>Amazon has said it hopes to sell the palm-scanning technology to other companies like retailers, stadiums and office buildings. Last September, Amazon said it was in \u201cactive discussions with several potential customers.\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4>It\u2019s unclear whether Amazon has signed any agreements with third parties interested in using the system. The company says thousands of people have signed up to use it at Amazon stores.<\/h4>\n<h4>As Amazon has sought to expand and validate palm-scanning technology as a form of payment, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2020\/10\/07\/amazon-palm-privacy\/\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">privacy and security experts<\/span><\/a> have also raised concerns around the dangers of shoppers\u2019 handing over biometric data to companies.<\/h4>\n<h4>Amazon has maintained that it designed the system to be \u201chighly secure\u201d and that it considers palm-scanning technology to be more private than other biometric alternatives like facial recognition.<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/04\/21\/amazon-whole-foods-getting-palm-scanning-payment-system.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initially Amazon will take a palm print, which will be linked to the customers credit card account. Thereafter, scanning the customer\u2019s palm will enable payment <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":232712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Surveillance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232722,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232721\/revisions\/232722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/232712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}