Amazon launches payment in 65 food stores by… the palm of your hand and without any credit card! Here’s how it works, thanks to our colleagues from RTL who explained the mechanism, taking New York as an example and a small grocery store nestled under Rockefeller Center which is already experiencing it.
Check-in is done at a kiosk, then you are asked to insert your credit card and phone number. Then, you have to stretch out the palm of the hand that will pass over a detector.
The device scans the right hand then the left hand then asks you to accept the terms of use or if you wish, erase all the data, Amazon will do it.
Eventually, this technology could make it possible to enter a stadium, a concert hall, or even your business. The problem remains that of the data because they are physical. Some wonder what would happen if they were hacked to be used to duplicate an identity.