{"id":151387,"date":"2022-11-29T03:23:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T09:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/whole-foods-shoppers-can-now-pay-with-palm-scans"},"modified":"2022-11-29T03:23:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T09:23:44","slug":"whole-foods-shoppers-can-now-pay-with-palm-scans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/whole-foods-shoppers-can-now-pay-with-palm-scans","title":{"rendered":"Whole Foods shoppers can now pay with palm scans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/whole-foods-shoppers-can-now-pay-with-palm-scans2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazon is bringing its palm print-scanning biometric payment technology to several Whole Foods locations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biometrics:<\/strong> Every person has measurable physical characteristics that are unique to them \u2014 and <em>because<\/em> these attributes are unique and measurable, they can be used to verify our identity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/articles\/emotion-ai\">Biometric technologies<\/a> \u2014 like the one that probably unlocks your phone \u2014 automate this verification, analyzing a face, fingerprint, or palm for distinct identifiers linked to a specific person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is bringing its palm print-scanning biometric payment technology to several Whole Foods locations. Biometrics: Every person has measurable physical characteristics that are unique to them \u2014 and because these attributes are unique and measurable, they can be used to verify our identity. Biometric technologies \u2014 like the one that probably unlocks your phone \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1512,1412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-mobile-phones","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}