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Mid-air, exactly like Amazon's
I would love to see a picture of one.
Their product uses visual light to take the 3D scan (hence the green glow) but their patent filings cover a lot of related scanning techniques.
Coupling un-alienable, (purposefully) unchangeable biological marks to any account is always horrible idea. And not just the privacy part, for one, it can (only) be unwillingly altered (eg. by an accident), the same way as fingerprints, so a secondary backup code is needed anyway, making the whole setup a bad sort of convenience feature. The proper solution would be a safe hardware key mechanism.
Irreversibly tying accounts to biometric identities is a very powerful thing which can easily be abused. Think of Salman Rushdi, the Iranian writer which became target of a religios fatwa and was basically advertised to be murdered. He somehow managed to disappear. But that was years ago. In todays world with Facebook everywhere and your social graph being a different kind of fingerprint, you'd need to axe-murder your whole family and friends to get rid of that social graph which identifies you, whatever name and picture you use. AS no normal human being will do that, it has become basically impossible to disappear. And, having lived in Colombia, South America, I've known many decent and nice people who just had to disappear only in order to protect their life. This is dangerous technology.
This is a continuation of Amazon's remove all inconvenience strategy. And it'll work. You're waving your hand and walking through now, no more scanning, no more opening up an app, no more tinkering with your phone. By chipping away at each of these friction points, no manner how minor, their moat grows and customers will notice a difference between an Amazon retail store vs. a competitor's.
At 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.
I had initially read your comment as "marketing people are having a bad day and want to just be one with the naming discussion"
Coupling un-alienable, (purposefully) unchangeable biological marks to any account is always horrible idea. And not just the privacy part, for one, it can (only) be unwillingly altered (eg. by an accident), the same way as fingerprints, so a secondary backup code is needed anyway, making the whole setup a bad sort of convenience feature. The proper solution would be a safe hardware key mechanism.
At 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.
Coupling un-alienable, (purposefully) unchangeable biological marks to any account is always horrible idea. And not just the privacy part, for one, it can (only) be unwillingly altered (eg. by an accident), the same way as fingerprints, so a secondary backup code is needed anyway, making the whole setup a bad sort of convenience feature. The proper solution would be a safe hardware key mechanism.
This is an important aspect. People are not aware how big the difference of this is to the usual account name and password. If you want to start over and register a new account, you can have that. Not with this technology. And with the amount of data which Amazon vacuums up, there are totally legitimate reasons for this. Let's say, just as an example, that your girlfriend has bipolar disorder and you order and read a…
Coupling un-alienable, (purposefully) unchangeable biological marks to any account is always horrible idea. And not just the privacy part, for one, it can (only) be unwillingly altered (eg. by an accident), the same way as fingerprints, so a secondary backup code is needed anyway, making the whole setup a bad sort of convenience feature. The proper solution would be a safe hardware key mechanism.
That's just not true. By definition all our identities are basically linked to a biometric, namely our face. If you walk into your bank and want to withdraw a large sum from your account, someone at the counter looks at your face and a shitty small photo taken from you either on their system or on your passport to determine if there is a "face match". A proper technological solution to the current more insecure human…