Amazon Bows Contactless Payments

Amazon One launched Tuesday in two Seattle-area Amazon Go stores as a “fast, convenient” way to use palms to pay, present a loyalty card, enter a stadium or "badge" into work. It's designed to be “highly secure and uses custom-built algorithms and hardware to create a person’s unique palm signature,” the company blogged. It's protected by “multiple security controls.” Palm images are “never stored on the Amazon One device” and are encrypted and sent to a “highly secure area we custom-built in the cloud where we create your palm signature." The retailer believes the technology has “broad applicability beyond our retail stores, so we also plan to offer the service to third parties like retailers, stadiums, and office buildings so that more people can benefit from this ease and convenience in more places.”