Amazon will pay $10 in promotional credit to customers who enroll their palm prints at stores equipped with its biometric scanning technology and link it to their Amazon account, TechCrunch reports. Amazon said it indefinitely stores the data, which can be used to target advertisements and make recommendations to users. Surveillance Technology Oversight Project Executive Director Albert Fox Cahn expressed concern over such use of biometric data. “The more we normalize these tactics, the harder they will be to escape,” he said.
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