CHUMLEY Whole Foods enters mark-of-the-beast territory with palm payment readers - - washtimesoped Any time data meets technology, data thefts are possibilities. Those who claim otherwise are lying. But the bigger consideration is this: freedom.
Whole Foods Market is rolling out a new palm payment reader devised by Amazon One, the contactless identification creation of Amazon, with expectations that all 500-plus grocery stores will offer the system before the end of this year.
“As Amazon One … reaches a critical milestone with more than 3 million uses, Whole Foods Market stores are going all in,” Amazon’s online press release. “By the end of this year, all 500+ Whole Foods Market locations in the U.S. will offer Amazon One for payment and Prime membership benefits. This means Whole Foods Market customers who choose to use Amazon One will no longer need their wallet or even a phone to pay — they can simply hover their palm over an Amazon One device.
Whole Foods, however, is a whole new mass market — one that even Amazon acknowledges ratchets the technology to a whole new level.What a privacy nightmare. “Amazon data breaches are rare and there aren’t any major incidents involving user credentials,” Firewall TimesAny time data meets technology, data thefts are possibilities. Those who claim otherwise are lying.
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