Year 2030. I kind of like the old school physical credit cards. It was fun to carry a wallet too. You could customize it, add a bit of flair and constantly obsess about making it thin.
Good ol’ days.
Amazon One – Palm recognition for Amazon Go
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#12> We selected palm recognition for a few important reasons. I'm sure the main one was that people associate fingerprints with being arrested, but maybe they could trick people into volunteering to be constantly fingerprinted by a private company if they just used a different part of the hand.
From the FAQ, it seems like this is not as invasive as fingerprints:
"We selected palm recognition for a few important reasons. One reason was that palm recognition is considered more private than some biometric alternatives because you can’t determine a person’s identity by looking at an image of their palm."
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#14> We selected palm recognition for a few important reasons. I'm sure the main one was that people associate fingerprints with being arrested, but maybe they could trick people into volunteering to be constantly fingerprinted by a private company if they just used a different part of the hand.
From the FAQ, it seems like this is not as invasive as fingerprints: "We selected palm recognition for a few important reasons. One reason was that palm recognition is considered more private than some biometric alternatives because you can’t determine a person’s identity by looking at an image of their palm."
If that is understood to mean palm prints are less invasive than fingerprints, then it also means palm prints are less good at correctly identifying users.
I read that part of their statement as a comparison of data privacy (not invasiveness) with face recognition. I think the contactless part was about invasiveness.
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#15> We selected palm recognition for a few important reasons. I'm sure the main one was that people associate fingerprints with being arrested, but maybe they could trick people into volunteering to be constantly fingerprinted by a private company if they just used a different part of the hand.
From the FAQ, it seems like this is not as invasive as fingerprints: "We selected palm recognition for a few important reasons. One reason was that palm recognition is considered more private than some biometric alternatives because you can’t determine a person’s identity by looking at an image of their palm."
it's probably also less error prone - more area meaning more data to base the identity from. Also less fiddly.
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#16Worst name ever
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#18> We selected palm recognition for a few important reasons. I'm sure the main one was that people associate fingerprints with being arrested, but maybe they could trick people into volunteering to be constantly fingerprinted by a private company if they just used a different part of the hand.
From the FAQ, it seems like this is not as invasive as fingerprints: "We selected palm recognition for a few important reasons. One reason was that palm recognition is considered more private than some biometric alternatives because you can’t determine a person’s identity by looking at an image of their palm."
I took "biometric alternatives" to be referring to face recognition.
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#19> We selected palm recognition for a few important reasons. I'm sure the main one was that people associate fingerprints with being arrested, but maybe they could trick people into volunteering to be constantly fingerprinted by a private company if they just used a different part of the hand.
From the FAQ, it seems like this is not as invasive as fingerprints: "We selected palm recognition for a few important reasons. One reason was that palm recognition is considered more private than some biometric alternatives because you can’t determine a person’s identity by looking at an image of their palm."
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#20At this point I feel like products are named One when the product manager and marketing people are having a bad day and want to just be done with the naming discussions already.
One is the name of the monopoly, and when you see things like XYZ One, the brand is actually One, and whichever XYZ coming before it is merely a product, not the vice versa.