Amazon One now has a palm-scanning app to make it even easier to give that stuff away.
Amazon userscan now use their phone cameras to scan their palmsand upload them to the cloud.
“Uploading your biometrics to the cloud.
Using a palm print to pay with Amazon One.Amazon
What could possibly go wrong?”
saysObdev, the developer of Mac security softwareLittle Snitch, in apost on Mastodon.
How can a photo of your palm be trusted?
Using a palm print to pay with Amazon One.Amazon
That’s where AI comes in.
Your actual photo is not uploaded.
The problem is not necessarily the camera tech or even the idea of using your palm to identify yourself.
Scanning a palm with the Amazon One app.Amazon
Isn’t this the same thing?
The fingerprint imageis not storedlike Amazon One’s scan, only a mathematical representation of your fingerprint is kept.
It would not be stored in the cloud.
It never leaves the phone.
Any further transactions are done the old-fashioned way.
You only ever use your biometrics to authenticate yourself to your iPhone.
Amazon One, instead, requires that you submit your biometrics to authenticate yourself every single time.
And this is in addition to storing the vector of those biometrics in its cloud.
This seems like a small distinction, but it’s huge.
Once your data is out there, it’s out there.
By normalizing the scanning of your palm into public devices, Amazon One could actually make this more likely.
If you want to use Amazon One, you might like to do a little research first.
