WARNING: Amazon’s ‘hand wave’ payment system *** Russell Brand
Brand warns that embrace of the technology is a step closer to eroding our freedom
Social commentator and comedian Russell Brand is raising the alarm on Amazon’s new biometric payment service, which it just launched in California and Texas, suggesting that it could lead to the creation of a social credit system.
Brand warns that the move is a step closer to eroding our freedom.
In his “Awakening with Russell” show on Monday, Brand shed light on the new system, which is being implemented in Amazon-owned Whole Foods stores across the two states. The stores are implementing palm scanning payment systems that only require buyers to wave their hands to pay for their groceries.
In his video, titled, “It’s happening,” Brand warned about the slow creep of such technologies and wondered aloud if this kind of technology could be used – or rather misused – to compile databases for law enforcement.
“Move over freedom more like,” Brand said. “It’s not only ApplePay who’s the competitor here. It’s the concept of liberty.”
Brand stated that the driving force behind these technologies, aside from the obvious convenience they provide to users, includes less-benevolent motives, including data harvesting and increased power for companies like Amazon to have over their customers.
“When we know Amazon have relationships with the police state, with CIA, with the FBI, with the government, have been guilty of handing over data without consent before,” Brand stated. “Oughten we be querying whether or not this is simply for our convenience or right from the get go.”
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