Experts Warn of ‘Digital Enslavement’ as Amazon Pushes Palm-Scan Payment Service

Amazon has rolled out tech to facilitate palm-scanning payments, drawing criticism from experts on privacy and social surveillance and control.
Experts Warn of ‘Digital Enslavement’ as Amazon Pushes Palm-Scan Payment Service
A sign is seen outside of an Amazon Go store at the Amazon.com Inc. headquarters in Seattle on May 20, 2021. David Ryder/Getty Images
Tom Ozimek
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E-commerce giant Amazon has just launched new tech that makes it far easier to sign up for its palm-scanning payment service, sparking renewed concerns among privacy experts, with some warning that it’s another pebble in the growing rock pile of big tech-enabled, Orwell-style digital enslavement.

Amazon announced on March 28 that it had just launched a new app that lets first-time users of its Amazon One biometric payment service sign up for it from the comfort of their home (instead of having to do it at a physical store) by taking a photo of a hand and uploading it to Amazon’s servers.

Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
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Tom Ozimek is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times. He has a broad background in journalism, deposit insurance, marketing and communications, and adult education.
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