Soon they’ll just put a chip in your hand when you’re born. From Tom Ozimek at The Epoch Times via zerohedge.com:
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 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.
“Until today, customers had to visit a physical location to hover their palm over an Amazon One device to sign up for the service,” the company said in a press release. “Now, they can sign up for Amazon One from home, work, or on-the-go.”
The benefit for users, according to Amazon, is convenience. Retailers are promised benefits from faster lines and “more frictionless in-store experience,” says Amazon, whose palm scanners are found in numerous retail locations across the country and have been used over 8 million times.
When Amazon first announced in 2020 that it was rolling out its biometric payment service, a number of privacy experts sounded the alarm, with some calling it a “terrible idea” because there are few laws to hold big tech accountable for keeping Americans’ sensitive personal information safe, or from preventing them from selling it to others or abusing it in other ways.
That is true socialism collective, more than just a chip, you’ll be selected for a career and all shirkers and free thinkers…please face wall now.
The Dead Kennedys great singles compilation album Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death.
Muh convenience is not always in your best interest.
Aldous Huxley has some interesting thoughts on the convenience uber alles Panopticon.
So glad that he and Orwell sat in with the Fabian Socialists and had a twinge of conscience to help us upgrade our consciousness.