{"id":96073,"date":"2019-09-11T11:02:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T18:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/silicon-valleys-final-frontier-for-mobile-payments-the-neoliberal-takeover-of-the-human-body"},"modified":"2019-09-11T11:02:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T18:02:27","slug":"silicon-valleys-final-frontier-for-mobile-payments-the-neoliberal-takeover-of-the-human-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/silicon-valleys-final-frontier-for-mobile-payments-the-neoliberal-takeover-of-the-human-body","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley\u2019s final frontier for mobile payments \u2014 \u2018the neoliberal takeover of the human body\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/silicon-valleys-final-frontier-for-mobile-payments-the-neoliberal-takeover-of-the-human-body2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biometric mobile wallets \u2014 payment technologies using our faces, fingerprints or retinas \u2014 already exist. Notable technology companies including Apple <a class=\"\" data-fancyId=\"XNASStockAAPL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/investing\/stock\/aapl\" data-track-mod=\"MW_story_quote\">AAPL, +2.62%<\/a> and Amazon <a class=\"\" data-fancyId=\"XNASStockAMZN\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/investing\/stock\/amzn\" data-track-mod=\"MW_story_quote\">AMZN, +0.26%<\/a> await a day when a critical mass of consumers is sufficiently comfortable walking into a store and paying for goods without a card or device, according to Sinnreich, author of \u201cThe Essential Guide to Intellectual Property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Removing the last physical barrier \u2014 smartphones, watches, smart glasses and credit cards \u2014 between our bodies and corporate America is the final frontier in mobile payments. \u201cThe deeper the tie between the human body and the financial networks, the fewer intimate spaces will be left unconnected to those networks,\u201d Sinnreich said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biometric mobile wallets \u2014 payment technologies using our faces, fingerprints or retinas \u2014 already exist. Notable technology companies including Apple AAPL, +2.62% and Amazon AMZN, +0.26% await a day when a critical mass of consumers is sufficiently comfortable walking into a store and paying for goods without a card or device, according to Sinnreich, author [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,45,1512,1412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-finance","category-mobile-phones","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96073","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\/525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}