You may have seen articles on LinkedIn News last week about Amazon piloting a system by which stadium-goers can pay for beer via a palm print biometric. As it happens, my colleague Jack Phillips was at Coors Field to see the Colorado Rockies over the weekend and here he kindly shares the word on the street about this new payment technology.
In the background here is that unusual data privacy concerns surround biometric data like palm prints and this data is tightly regulated in many states.