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Wow

I've just read the article on Amazon's new palm scanning technology.

BBC News - Amazon One: Palm scanner launched for 'secure' payments

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54337984


Fairly innocent until you read that they see it being used for all sorts including building security.


As well as understanding your online shopping preferences and habits through their site, tools like this, if implemented wider could be used to track you in real time and with their algorithms they can use it to see what other goods and services they can offed you.

"You appear to be in Westminster , rather than going to pret let us deliver lunch to you as it is almost the time you normally go out to eat and based on your recent purchases we recommend the all day breakfast sandwich from the Amazon store"


Just a bit too much information and power in one organisations hands (if you excuse the pun) for my liking. I thought Alexa was bad enough but this appears to be real scary sci fi territory!


What next is my question ?

That's just being paranoid johnl


She doesn't need the blue light to listen to you and apparently she talks to your phone behind your back.


But being serious, is the palm reader just taking a single company's knowledge of you too far ? Should Amazon be split to prevent it becoming the all seeing organisation knowing everything about each of us ?


It is the stuff of a science fiction nightmare movie !

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