title: “Experts Worry About New Palm Reading Payment Tech” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-20” author: “Norma Reynolds”
By the Palm of Your Hand
There also is the potential that these kinds of devices could help herald in the expansion of biometrics being used in more public spaces, allowing corporations and governments to easily track your activity.
“As consumers become more desensitized to these kinds of technologies, they run a severe risk of a snowball effect that leads to governments rolling out similarly invasive tracking.”
These concerns aren’t unfounded. Some places in the country have already started working to ban the use of facial ID recognition and other mass surveillance tech due to the concerns of how it might be used negatively.
