Amazon One is a contactless palm reader used for identity verification

guest · Sep 30, 2020

Amazon One is a contactless palm reader used for identity verification
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September 29, 2020
https://www.techspot.com/news/86920-amazon-one-verifies-identity-scanning-palm.html

What just happened? Amazon’s physical retail team on Tuesday introduced a new contactless method for people to interact with wireless scanners at grocery stores, sporting events and even at work.

Dubbed Amazon One, the system allows people to use their unique palm print to pay for purchases at the store, present a loyalty card, enter a stadium or clock in at work.
Amazon said the service was built with security in mind, utilizing custom algorithms and hardware to capture a person’s unique palm signature.
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The e-commerce giant said it takes less than a minute to get set up to use Amazon One at the store, noting that you don’t need an Amazon account to sign up or use it. A mobile phone number and a credit card will suffice.

Amazon said it chose palm recognition due to it being considered more private than some other biometric alternatives.
It also requires a user to make the intentional gesture of holding their palm over a device to use.
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Amazon: Introducing Amazon One—a new innovation to make everyday activities effortless

And, we believe Amazon One has broad applicability beyond our retail stores, so we also plan to offer the service to third parties like retailers, stadiums, and office buildings so that more people can benefit from this ease and convenience in more places. Interested third parties can reach out through the email address provided on our Amazon One website.
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guest · Oct 1, 2020

Amazon’s palm reading starts at the grocery store, but it could be so much bigger
Amazon One is about identity, not payments
October 1, 2020
https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/1/...in-recognition-payments-identity-verification

Earlier this week, Amazon unveiled Amazon One: new technology for its Amazon Go stores that lets shoppers pay for their groceries by scanning the palm of their hand. By analyzing the shape of your hand and the unique configuration of veins under your skin, Amazon says its technology can verify your identity the same way facial recognition does.

In the future, it says, Amazon One could not only be used for shopping but as a replacement for tickets at music and sporting events, and as an alternative to your office keycard, letting you scan in with a swipe of your hand. In other words, Amazon One isn’t a payment technology. It’s an identity technology, and one that could give Amazon more reach into your life than ever before.
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Usually, vein scanning is done using infrared light that penetrates the surface layers of skin, though Amazon doesn’t mention this technology specifically.
It says anyone can sign up to Amazon One by inserting a credit card into one of its scanners and registering one or both of their palms. The scanners can then identify someone “in seconds” without skin contact.
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From a security point of view, palm scanning has some key advantages over other biometrics. First, the information being used to identify you is not easily observable, unlike your face or ear print.

“All the other biometrics that are becoming commonplace — face, fingerprints, iris — are all quite observable and visible from the outside,” Elizabeth Renieris, a law and policy researcher who focuses on data governance and human rights issues, told The Verge.
“There’s definitely something to say for the advanced security [of palm scanning].”
Similarly, the information collected during a palm scan makes it easier to incorporate a liveness test: to check that you have a real, living person in front of you.
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“Your physical self is literally becoming a transactional tool,” she says.
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