I can only see this going into a very dystopian path. Based on their actions, I don’t trust these companies, their security practices, nor their privacy policies. Why would I give them my biometrics? And my full palm, at that!? Hell no!
Shit no! You know what you can’t change if/when they inevitably leak your data? Your fucking hand.
Uhh. Have you seen men in black? /s
All this trouble and they didn’t even make the scanner shaped like a hand so you can high five it. Waste of potential.
I don’t understand what this solves… We can use a card faster than this (a mere tap), and if we forget our card, it’s programmed into our phones and even our watches as a backup.
Body parts aren’t secure. They’re removable.
Stop telling people their body is insecure. Everyone is beautiful!
Except me.
I didn’t know paying in body parts was legal.
I like to do this at Whole Foods in front of my anti vax friends and tell them about how cool it is to have a chip that lets me pay by waving my hand.
It won’t be long now until we have the eye scanner things from Minority Report and the only way to protect your privacy is to become blind
contactless cards are already a thing. why why why
Its hard to believe anyone would use the thing. It’ll be more problematic if/when its used for regulatory purposes. Sort of at the desensitization still. Today.
I had to take a State exam for licensure a few years back. I was told that I had to take a palm/vein scan to prove my identity. I informed her Ive never had one so it could not prove my identity-- but hey, Im the crazy one. Its on a server somewhere now tho… Modernity is pretty stupid, tbh.
I still think the idea of tech implants are cool but I’ve also reached the point where I wouldn’t get one unless I learned to build it myself and was in charge of every single aspect of it.
Considering I lack degrees in medicine and computer science, I don’t think I’ll have them done anytime soon lol
This makes me irrationally angry. I feel like if I saw that shit in real life I would have to put in effort not to smash it.
bro, come back to me when most stores accept touch emv payments. lol, like each fucking store is gonna know what to do with a fucking palm scan when emv is fucking forbidden magic.
Haha! Good point. It’s been “mandated” a couple years ago, right? It’s barely anywhere
Interesting regional differences. It’s incredibly rare that I find a store that doesn’t support tap-to-pay
I live in DC and most groceries don’t support it.
Whole Foods wants to use some qr code thing, probably precursor to the palm.
Forget about privacy, this is just fucking dumb
One point of failure that can’t be replaced if stolen?
This won’t ever take off, and will most definitely die out quickly in favor of literally any other technique including just embedding an nfc chip and battery to your palm surgically. Which I probably still wouldn’t be thrilled about but
I’ve see where you can pay with your fingerprint at some venders. It’s a similar concept, in terms of single point of failure. Regardless, I hope you’re right.
E: **mostly right. I won’t embed anything in my skin for payments. CC or cash or phone NFC (and I don’t like that one for it’s security implications). That’s it.
Yep exactly, a single point of failure that also can’t be replaced
