Amazon Wants Your Handprint
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Amazon has installed digital palm readers at Whole Foods. The reader scans your palm, collecting biometric data, and links it to your credit card to pay for your groceries. What does exchanging vein mapping for eggs and butter mean for the future of data security and in-person shopping.
Guest: Emily Moore, freelance tech and food journalist
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| 0:25.8 | It is 8.30 in the morning. I am at the Whole Foods going a little early hoping to not. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm not the most tech savvy person. |
| 0:47.0 | I don't really use the cloud. |
| 0:49.0 | I couldn't tell you how my laptop works. |
| 0:51.0 | I currently have pictures stuck on my phone that for the life of me I cannot |
| 0:54.5 | get off of there. I also get kind of weirded out every time I see a company rollout |
| 0:59.8 | a tech update that I've never seen before. That's why I wanted to talk to Emily Moore, a technology |
| 1:05.0 | and food journalist, about an interesting trip I took to my local Whole Foods. |
| 1:10.0 | I went to get bananas because we always need bananas and some yogurt and I remembered we were |
| 1:14.6 | having friends over so I got a bottle of wine and when I went to the self check out there was this |
| 1:20.6 | long device that kind of looked like a weird cell phone. |
| 1:27.1 | Can you guess what that was? |
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