Digital ID is becoming all the rage, but how invasive is it? Amazon's new palm reader is a case in point. It's easy and fast, but so is using a contactless card, so - why? Should we worry about our physical details being stored in the cloud?
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nostr:npub1ht0rq2ej339cv0nz4m260llgdq8mz05fwpz4zjc8s7lmtduzq8hq60dyc3 ... yeesh. When I hear "digital ID", that is *not* what I think of!
(in Sweden we've had Bank ID for a long time, with the downside that you need to arrange it via a bank. And there's also a company that's started up to *explicitly* be an option for digital ID if you can't/don't want to have bank ID, with both of them controlled and actually *less* physical details--no finger prints--than say passport)
The articles says that this technology will initially be used for payments - but I ask, how? How is Amazon going to charge for your purchases using only your palm? Is it going to use an implanted chip, or what?
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Biometric ID is necessary for full rollout of digital currency control of the masses. Say something GOV doesn't like? Click! You are cut off from funds.