Amazon Plans more Retail Palm Scanning

 Also a space we examined. 

Amazon Expands Palm-Scanning Payment Tech to 65 More Whole Foods Locations

By TechCrunch, August 12, 2022

Amazon plans to expand its Amazon One palm-scanner payment technology to more than 65 Whole Foods stores in California.

A part of the company’s mission to use “contactless” technology that makes it faster to pay, the technology employs machine learning to create a palm signature for each customer and linking it to a payment card at the kiosk or point-of-sale station, allowing them to complete transactions by holding their hand over a scanner.

The images captured by the kiosk are encrypted and sent to a server to match to the customer, but are not stored.

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Amazon Palm Scanning Moves outside Retail

 Palm scanning  is apparently a successful means of quick secure ID outside retail: 

Amazon One’s palm-scanning tech makes first move into entertainment venues in TheVerge

Launching at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre   By James Vincent  Sep 14, 2021, 5:49am EDT

" ... It’s the first time the technology has been deployed outside Amazon and Whole Food stores, and Amazon says it expects the tech will be added “to more AXS ticketed venues in the future.” People can enroll into the scheme at dedicated stations in the Red Rocks venue, with these booths analyzing the unique patterns of veins and lines in their palms to register and then later verify identities. ... " 

More on Amazon's Palm Scanning System

Amazon Bringing Palm-Scanning Payment System to Whole Foods Stores

CNBC, Annie Palmer, April 21, 2021

Amazon's palm-scanning payment system will be rolled out to a Whole Foods store in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood before expanding to seven other Whole Foods stores in the area in the coming months. About a dozen Amazon physical stores already offer the Amazon One payment system, which allows shoppers who have linked a credit card to their palm print to pay for items by holding their palm over a scanning device. Amazon says the palm-scanning system is "highly secure" and more private than facial recognition and other biometric systems. The company says thousands of people have signed up to use the system at the Amazon stores.... '

Palm Swipe Scanning at Whole Foods

 We experimented with a number of ID/payment methods.   From Iris to thumbprint to Face.   But not palm swipe scanning, installed at Wholefoods now. Contact-less.

Amazon to let Whole Foods shoppers pay with a swipe of their palm   By Jeffrey Dastin

 (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc said it is rolling out biometric technology at its Whole Foods stores around Seattle starting on Wednesday, letting shoppers pay for items with a scan of their palm.

The move shows how Amazon is bringing some of the technology already in use at its namesake brick-and-mortar Go and Books stores to the grocery chain it acquired in 2017.

The system, called Amazon One, lets customers associate a credit card with their palm print. It offers a contact-less alternative to cash and card payments, Amazon said.  .... "