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What is Amazon One and what are the privacy concerns with palm scanning?
Answered independently in 1 episodes. Every line below is verbatim from the transcript, timestamped to the moment it was said.
The short answer
What the archive says
01Amazon One launched a contactless palm reader tied to your credit card for Amazon Go stores—Ryan's concern is fragmented biometric standards across Apple, Samsung and Amazon rather than one universal scan. source →
02Watch where palm-scan tech goes next: reports suggested Amazon wanted it used for entry into venues like stadiums, which raises a bigger privacy question than checkout convenience. source →
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What was actually said
There's privacy concern. The other concern is where is this technology going to take us? Because some people were saying that Amazon was even trying to take this eventually into, you go into a stadium, read your poem, and then you go into the game.
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