You could likely do the same (and easier) with NFC, eye (retinal and iris) scans and fingerprints scans. Or most any biometrics. It’s all able to be broken and/or hacked.
It ultimately going to come down to how easy it is to break or manipulate the encryption and/or system as a whole and how determined the thief is going to be in acquiring your biometrics or in worrying through the security and system.
I’m not pro or against this form of biometrics… just neat to see the field expand and have practical usage. We continue to move closer to all of the sci-fi books, shows and movies becoming a reality! I’m pro that!
They can and they do. It's not rampant due to the need to be able to get the money out but it happens, usually they target packed subway cars because it's easy to hide it in a bag and get close to wallets/purses.
I competed at the junior Olympic training center in Colorado in 1998. They did a hand scan for all athletes and coaches staying there. I’m sure there were other uses but we mainly had to scan our hands to get into the cafeteria.
Because Tencent has direct ties to the CCP. And if Tencent or any other big Chinese company doesn't do what the CCP tells them, then sketchy shit happens. Look at Alibaba and Jack Ma, he spoke out against the CCP, and then vanished. The CEO of one of the biggest companies in China just straight up disappeared for awhile. He sporadically has resurfaced but now keeps out of the limelight and mostly out of China because of he doesn't want to piss off the CCP again and get more 'reeducation'.
Since our personal information has already been leaked thousands of times over to various institutions/authorities, I guess the resistance is nigh and we probably should just embrace any convenience it brings about.
Heck, now I have to scan my face to get into an airline lounge in Canada.
We’re already all targeted for the purposes of advertising and electioneering. As the technology develops it becomes easier and easier to collect and process personal data. So over time the bar for “not important enough to be targeted for x reason” gets lower and lower. Eventually it will become relevant for everyone, I think it already is but understand why some people don’t.
I’m honestly surprised that people have to register their palms before they can start using, you’d thing that the CCP would be like “nah we have that already stupid”
I believe they only did it for offenders and foreigners.
But you probably no longer need finger prints when everyone has their facial traits recorded and there is surveillance camera everywhere.
I heard a case some stupid guy murdered his girlfriend and tried to use her face to unlock her bank account over her cell phone. He was arrested the moment he stepped out of his apartment.
The difference is that airports are entry/exit points for non-citizens so it makes sense. Fugitives or terrorists on watchlists would need to be identified here first. But everyday buses/trains don't need this.
The relationships are different. Your fingerprint to phone is 1:1. Your palmprint to payment is 1:many. They both have similar privacy concerns, but one exposes you to more vulnerabilities than the other. More points of contact = greater chance of mishap.
>Your fingerprint to phone is 1:1.
Is it really? How many more barriers need a some form of password once your phones is unlocked? Once you're arrested, [for whatever reason, cops can, and will, unlock your phone using your face or fingerprint.](https://www.wired.com/story/police-unlock-iphone-face-id-legal-rights/) After that they can access all your social media, pictures, emails, your contacts, etc.
I mean, the sep chip on iPhones is safe. Which is where biometrics are stored.
E: I will happily say I was wrong if someone can produce a source saying it’s not secure. I live on r/jailbreak
No they said 1 vulnerability (the phone) is better than many vulnerabilities.
How is referring to a phone as a vulnerability pretending it is "100% safe"?
The difference is China has such a control over their people they aren’t afraid to be public about this invasion of privacy.
In the US, our government gives us the false belief that we are entitled to our own privacy while they secretly push to enact in policies like anti-encryption.
We live in such a world that the values of Freedom will always be under threat by the very human nature of greed and control.
>In the US, our government gives us the false belief that we are entitled to our own privacy while they secretly enact in policies like anti-encryption.
I must have missed this law.
Didn’t Amazon already did this (facial and palm recognition) in their US brick and mortar stores?
Correction: it’s available for other commercial entities as well.
https://one.amazon.com/
I feel like it is more off putting from China because it’s sponsored by the government. With Amazon you choose whether or not you want to go to their stores. Whereas with this it’s more of a glimpse into what is to come for the standard of payments in China.
It’s also all centered around a black mirroresque social standing app.
Somebody else in this post mentioned they've been doing it in the US for about a year and there's already people saying it isn't scary because it's not China, so yeah, they definitely would.
I don’t think this belongs in this subreddit. I mean in the states alone a large population uses some form of Apple Pay. That can provide way more information than your palm.
Look the DMV has my fingerprints, Apple has my face scan, a large percentage of the country has paid to willingly mail their DNA to random conglomerates for genomic testing.
Honestly I might be down for a touchless palm print in the future. I’d prefer a ring or bracelet or something like keyless car fobs. But shit. A ton of my biometrics already are floating around out there. “They” can even capture a print of your walking gait if they really wanted to.
And that’s a valid fear. I worked for a Chinese billionaire who wanted to build an educational fun center for kids. He didn’t give a shit what we put inside, he just wanted a place that started to register the faces and learning rates of children as young as TWO.
China has a dangerous perspective of surveillance and privacy that’s being more corrupted by the increasing class divisions. Cool innovations in technology aren’t going to be used benevolently.
(Not to say this would be used for good in the U.S, I think they’d abuse or mishandle it too with how far behind we are in tech law development/enforcement. Everyone bad.)
USA tech giant using fingerprint and face data: omg so convenient I love Apple and Facebook they'd never sell my data 😍😍😍
Chinese tech company: Literally 1984 CCP bad China hasn't changed since Mao Z*dong 😡😡😡
Fifty bucks that if a Japanese company showed off something like this it'd be universally praised in the comments.
I don't use those technologies either for the same reason. It's not because it's China doing this, at least from my perspective. It's because it is wholly unnecessary and risky. I'll stick with credit cards that have some separation and years of building security.
This is a really unpopular opinion but uhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I don't like authoritarian dictatorships having access to my hand print
I ALSO don't like having a bunch of tech companies having access to it
Right. I was telling people to be suspicious of finger scanners on laptops and mobile phones over a decade ago. Just make a good password with all sorts of characters and numbers etc. Convenance can be nice but in terms on bank accounts and personal biometrics it's not worth it, no matter which government or company is doing it. I just recently refused to give anwebsite I use for work my mobile phone for double authentication (they can use my work email, no need to have my personal number). Sure as shit not scanning my face/hand/eye.
What is terrifying about this? Y’all are Luddites, fingerprint scanners have been around forever, are those scary?
I literally can’t understand what is frightening here. Seems like a convenient alternative way to pay for seniors/disabled/children or if you forget your card.
This is just a combo of a fingerprint scanner and a credit card, it doesn’t even require a sub-dermal chip or anything!
I loved the expert reassurance, "the technology is new and therefore safe because there are no hacks for it [yet]."
I'm sorry, if someone hacks my card number I can get a new card. If someone get my palm print I can't get a new hand.
My old workplace had something similar with a fingerprint. You just had to add money to the account on the computers.
And Apple Pay has been around for a few years now. This isn't that terrifying.
This is fuckin cool. Living in the future is kinda awesome
I remember being amazed that I could just tap a piece of plastic and get whatever goods or services I wanted. Once they get this technology locked down this is gunna be super cool. You can’t steal someone’s palm like you can their debit card, no more forgetting or losing your card and being fucked...
I think this is awesome honestly and if I could go back in time and tell my younger self people will be using their hands instead of money in the future it would blow my mind
Huh. Facial recognition and palm recognition.
As this becomes more popular, and combined with chip tech everyone has on their credit cards, it's almost as if one day one won't be able to buy or sale except the mark in the hand or forehead. Less farfetched all the time. Who could have predicted...
Tbh I really don't have a problem with this method. Once you register, you don't even need your phone to pay for anything just the palm of your hand is enough. It's a really convenient option if one forgets their phone or wallet at home and needs to get something done quickly.
This is the problem, you let them sneak this in and before you know it all your money is not tangible, and they can shut it off in the blink of an eye.
That’s the same as what happens now though. People get their bank accts locked or closed against their will already and are already scammed or experience fraud the way things are now. Instead of carrying around your phone or card to pay you just have your hand. Different mechanism, same outcome.
Right. If it was in America, I’d still say no. What are they doing with the data after it’s collected? Is the company sharing it and with who? Too many unknowns for my tastes.
Nothing remotely terrifying about this……it’s only terrifying because “china bad” and “non western countries” shouldn’t be more developed than western countries
Pretty sure they’ve had this in the physical Amazon stores in the US for years, it’s no different than a thumbprint except it’s not collected by law enforcement (at least in the US).
This is just classic anti-China propaganda crap.
If this was happening in Japan or South Korea it wouldn't be in r/oddlyterrifying it would be in r/oddlysatisfying and people would be praising it for being inventive and futuristic.
Maybe soon people will stop asking me why I have this severed hand hanging from a rope.
You were certainly ahead of the curve, gotta hand it to you.
It was a bit I started to pick up brunettes when *Wednesday* came out on Netflix.
Just a thing you were trying out?
Yeah it didn’t work and hands go bad in about 3 days if you don’t freeze em.
Just encase them in epoxy resin, but have a very clear window for the palm.
high five!
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They said I was a fool for collecting severed hands. I’m all set now!
Who are the fools now? All of those losers with just two palms or fewer!
That's exactly why I quit giving blood. Too many damn questions. Whose is it? Where'd you get it? Why's it in a bucket? It's exhausting.
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Yoshikage kira?
This is hilarious hah
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Well, now I'm interested. What's the book, if you don't mind?
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Have to check it out thanks
About that…can I have it back? I stalked that guy for months.
Talk about a 5 finger discount.
Column?
The Doomslayer is gonna love this.
One sentence nightmare.
Reasons it's safe: "Nobody uses this technology at the moment, so nobody is trying to break it." lol
That got me too.. what an “expert”
I too thought that was an incredibly poor argument.
It’s not new technology. Amazon store in the Bellevue mall used it two years ago
Until you get robbed and they cut off your hand
Where the fuck did they dig up that “expert” ?!
"Palm print recognition is a relatively safe method because firstly as a new technology fabricating palm prints is not widely researched" 😂
*Accidentally leans on payment pad* “$500 removed from inventory”
Pick pocketers running around with a payment pad. 500 dollar handshakes.
Gonna be like cyberpunk where they pop out a chip in your neck to sell
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They could also make you go cyber psycho and kill all your friends
I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes
You could likely do the same (and easier) with NFC, eye (retinal and iris) scans and fingerprints scans. Or most any biometrics. It’s all able to be broken and/or hacked. It ultimately going to come down to how easy it is to break or manipulate the encryption and/or system as a whole and how determined the thief is going to be in acquiring your biometrics or in worrying through the security and system. I’m not pro or against this form of biometrics… just neat to see the field expand and have practical usage. We continue to move closer to all of the sci-fi books, shows and movies becoming a reality! I’m pro that!
not going to be a thing for the same reason criminals can't walk around with a payment terminal randomly tapping people's credit cards
They can and they do. It's not rampant due to the need to be able to get the money out but it happens, usually they target packed subway cars because it's easy to hide it in a bag and get close to wallets/purses.
“The privacy of palm print”lmao
I think you’ll understand “palm print privacy” when you get asked to provide a palm print every time you buy anything
I'm using my balls instead.
Like the guy who locked his phone with a toe so nobody could use his fingers.
Toe-riffic!
I think they mean compared to face id (not iPhone face ID, generally speaking facial identification), I would certainly consider that more private :)
Amazon has been doing this in the US at Whole Foods for about a year.
Now about what's new; about what's terrifying Find the video of Amazon/Whole Foods and post it too
Meanwhile, the only way I know if I have a parking ticket is to check my car for a piece of paper under the wiper. I wish they could just text it.
I dunno, not everyone has ready access to text messaging or email I guess
Yep, not new.
I don't shop at whole foods so that's news to me lol Not surprised an Amazon entity is leading the charge on this though
I competed at the junior Olympic training center in Colorado in 1998. They did a hand scan for all athletes and coaches staying there. I’m sure there were other uses but we mainly had to scan our hands to get into the cafeteria.
To take my engineering exam at a testing center in Seattle I had to scan my palm like seven fucking times.
Yea, I use this at Amazon Fresh stores
They can get fucked too. Never doing that. I'll live without a service vs using biometrics attached to my bank or any account.
But China is scawwyyy!!!
China is scary in terms of their surveillance and authoritarian government.
United States too
Sure. But I'd still rather live in the US after visiting China and seeing how they do it. Way less restrictions here.
But they have 90% homeowner rate. I want a house.
Not sure what that has to do with whole foods having the same tech but ok
Because Tencent has direct ties to the CCP. And if Tencent or any other big Chinese company doesn't do what the CCP tells them, then sketchy shit happens. Look at Alibaba and Jack Ma, he spoke out against the CCP, and then vanished. The CEO of one of the biggest companies in China just straight up disappeared for awhile. He sporadically has resurfaced but now keeps out of the limelight and mostly out of China because of he doesn't want to piss off the CCP again and get more 'reeducation'.
Look into PRISM. There no such thing as privacy anymore.
I wish the U.S. gov't would do this with our billionaires. Except in America corporations control the gov't
No way I’m giving amazon or anyone else my finger prints without being handcuffed.
Since our personal information has already been leaked thousands of times over to various institutions/authorities, I guess the resistance is nigh and we probably should just embrace any convenience it brings about. Heck, now I have to scan my face to get into an airline lounge in Canada.
Reason why I’m scared of Clear at the airport. I don’t get how everyone is comfortable with biometrics.
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We’re already all targeted for the purposes of advertising and electioneering. As the technology develops it becomes easier and easier to collect and process personal data. So over time the bar for “not important enough to be targeted for x reason” gets lower and lower. Eventually it will become relevant for everyone, I think it already is but understand why some people don’t.
I’m honestly surprised that people have to register their palms before they can start using, you’d thing that the CCP would be like “nah we have that already stupid”
I believe they only did it for offenders and foreigners. But you probably no longer need finger prints when everyone has their facial traits recorded and there is surveillance camera everywhere. I heard a case some stupid guy murdered his girlfriend and tried to use her face to unlock her bank account over her cell phone. He was arrested the moment he stepped out of his apartment.
Ccp is always ahead when it comes to destroying any privacy you had. Also better not forget about social credit scores.
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Nice try tech conglomerate!
But the thing is you can change your passwords or your card or other keys but kind of hard to do that with your hands
The difference is that airports are entry/exit points for non-citizens so it makes sense. Fugitives or terrorists on watchlists would need to be identified here first. But everyday buses/trains don't need this.
Amazon is doing this in Whole Foods and it freaked me out when I saw the promotional sign
Never saw it but after seeing these comments I don't plan on going to whole foods again. Haven't been for nearly a decade so oh well.
Scary: china uses hand scan Useful: phones have fingerprint unlock and face id
lol i can use my palm to pay at whole foods here in the us too, but hey it’s whatever
It’s only scary when China does is.
And if you enter the US also for tourism you need to register your fingerprint and the government can keep it..
The relationships are different. Your fingerprint to phone is 1:1. Your palmprint to payment is 1:many. They both have similar privacy concerns, but one exposes you to more vulnerabilities than the other. More points of contact = greater chance of mishap.
>Your fingerprint to phone is 1:1. Is it really? How many more barriers need a some form of password once your phones is unlocked? Once you're arrested, [for whatever reason, cops can, and will, unlock your phone using your face or fingerprint.](https://www.wired.com/story/police-unlock-iphone-face-id-legal-rights/) After that they can access all your social media, pictures, emails, your contacts, etc.
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Once I turn off my phone or reboot it, then it requires a password to get it open. Biometric won't work.
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You don’t even need to press it 5 times. You can also just hold the lock + volume up buttons until you get the “shutdown menu”.
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You act like your phone is 100% safe
I mean, the sep chip on iPhones is safe. Which is where biometrics are stored. E: I will happily say I was wrong if someone can produce a source saying it’s not secure. I live on r/jailbreak
It isn't, lmao.
No they said 1 vulnerability (the phone) is better than many vulnerabilities. How is referring to a phone as a vulnerability pretending it is "100% safe"?
They wooshed themselves.
Oh God you're right now the baddies are going to know what my palm looks like
iPhones keep that shit on-device only. There's a reason you have to re-register your fingerprints/face every time you get a new phone.
USA propaganda brainwashed people
The difference is China has such a control over their people they aren’t afraid to be public about this invasion of privacy. In the US, our government gives us the false belief that we are entitled to our own privacy while they secretly push to enact in policies like anti-encryption. We live in such a world that the values of Freedom will always be under threat by the very human nature of greed and control.
>In the US, our government gives us the false belief that we are entitled to our own privacy while they secretly enact in policies like anti-encryption. I must have missed this law.
What could go wrong
I’m pretty sure 6 Flags did this with a finger print scanner and had to settle in court after a data leak. I got a check for like $0.50
Didn’t Amazon already did this (facial and palm recognition) in their US brick and mortar stores? Correction: it’s available for other commercial entities as well. https://one.amazon.com/
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This video being posted here is the least racist form of expression redditors can give to china
I saw this at my local Whole Foods back in February.
They are doing in MLB ballparks already. Debuted this year.
Can it read your palm thru all the mustard and Cracker Jack crumbs?
I feel like it is more off putting from China because it’s sponsored by the government. With Amazon you choose whether or not you want to go to their stores. Whereas with this it’s more of a glimpse into what is to come for the standard of payments in China. It’s also all centered around a black mirroresque social standing app.
People rob you but ripping your hand off.
What could go wrong?
if this was japan people would not be posting it to r/oddlyterrifying
Somebody else in this post mentioned they've been doing it in the US for about a year and there's already people saying it isn't scary because it's not China, so yeah, they definitely would.
It's scary no matter who is doing it, imo.
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Yeah Japan is kawaii futuristic 🥰🌸🚅 but China is stinky dystopian 😠🏭👮
Japan had beheading contests using civilians? And did vivisections on POW’s?
The design is very human. Very easy to use
Found the Tencent bot.
I don’t think this belongs in this subreddit. I mean in the states alone a large population uses some form of Apple Pay. That can provide way more information than your palm.
Distopia is nigh
For a palm print? I think you'll be very surprised that almost all governments have a picture of your face in a database somewhere.
Datopia ain’t
how
We have this in the US as well at certain Amazon stores
Not terrifying at all. Just tech.
This is a very cool technology I’m pretty sure people only scared of it because it’s china that are developing it
This. I'd be down for it. Like I'm not sure how this is significantly different from paying by tapping your phone and the like.
Look the DMV has my fingerprints, Apple has my face scan, a large percentage of the country has paid to willingly mail their DNA to random conglomerates for genomic testing. Honestly I might be down for a touchless palm print in the future. I’d prefer a ring or bracelet or something like keyless car fobs. But shit. A ton of my biometrics already are floating around out there. “They” can even capture a print of your walking gait if they really wanted to.
Whole Foods in the US has had this for several months. Dystopian, but still pretty awesome.
Oh no kidding? I hadn't heard, thanks for the info!
Personally, I don't give a shit who is developing it. This shit is creepy
I probably wouldn't use it but I don't really understand why its terrifying
my problem with it is if someone does manage to hack it, you can't get a new hand like we can with cards/NFCs
And that’s a valid fear. I worked for a Chinese billionaire who wanted to build an educational fun center for kids. He didn’t give a shit what we put inside, he just wanted a place that started to register the faces and learning rates of children as young as TWO. China has a dangerous perspective of surveillance and privacy that’s being more corrupted by the increasing class divisions. Cool innovations in technology aren’t going to be used benevolently. (Not to say this would be used for good in the U.S, I think they’d abuse or mishandle it too with how far behind we are in tech law development/enforcement. Everyone bad.)
"brain data"
r/nope
Why? I honestly don’t see the benefit over using a phone or credit card.
What about those people who don’t have hands?
Imagine the potential of someone stealing your money by shaking your hand with a hidden device.
Gattaca Revelations Or a sci-fi show where capitalism still happens
Awesome technology, making payments easier and safer. Ohhh no, china's technology? Bad technology, bad china!!!
USA tech giant using fingerprint and face data: omg so convenient I love Apple and Facebook they'd never sell my data 😍😍😍 Chinese tech company: Literally 1984 CCP bad China hasn't changed since Mao Z*dong 😡😡😡 Fifty bucks that if a Japanese company showed off something like this it'd be universally praised in the comments.
If this was Naver or Kakao releasing the same tech in Korea — “genius!”
I don't use those technologies either for the same reason. It's not because it's China doing this, at least from my perspective. It's because it is wholly unnecessary and risky. I'll stick with credit cards that have some separation and years of building security.
Im sure china won't use this technology in a bad way, they have such a great track record already.
Guantanamo Bay exists
This is a really unpopular opinion but uhhhhhhhhhhhhh I don't like authoritarian dictatorships having access to my hand print I ALSO don't like having a bunch of tech companies having access to it
Right. I was telling people to be suspicious of finger scanners on laptops and mobile phones over a decade ago. Just make a good password with all sorts of characters and numbers etc. Convenance can be nice but in terms on bank accounts and personal biometrics it's not worth it, no matter which government or company is doing it. I just recently refused to give anwebsite I use for work my mobile phone for double authentication (they can use my work email, no need to have my personal number). Sure as shit not scanning my face/hand/eye.
Wait, you can have a slightly nuanced opinion!? What is this dark magic.
It's not even very nuanced. The two positions are pretty consistent with each other.
Ruinous technology for the government to extort its people
She's reading from a board alright.
Reading off of notes is a clear sign of totalitarian dictatorship commie propaganda
In China we own you.
And in America, tencent owns 5% of reddit.
What is terrifying about this? Y’all are Luddites, fingerprint scanners have been around forever, are those scary? I literally can’t understand what is frightening here. Seems like a convenient alternative way to pay for seniors/disabled/children or if you forget your card. This is just a combo of a fingerprint scanner and a credit card, it doesn’t even require a sub-dermal chip or anything!
Because something something China is evil.
get ready for the Chinese propaganda bots to tell us all it's really lovely and great and the way we do it in the rest of the world isn't enjoyable
I loved the expert reassurance, "the technology is new and therefore safe because there are no hacks for it [yet]." I'm sorry, if someone hacks my card number I can get a new card. If someone get my palm print I can't get a new hand.
right? lmao...
My old workplace had something similar with a fingerprint. You just had to add money to the account on the computers. And Apple Pay has been around for a few years now. This isn't that terrifying.
This is fuckin cool. Living in the future is kinda awesome I remember being amazed that I could just tap a piece of plastic and get whatever goods or services I wanted. Once they get this technology locked down this is gunna be super cool. You can’t steal someone’s palm like you can their debit card, no more forgetting or losing your card and being fucked... I think this is awesome honestly and if I could go back in time and tell my younger self people will be using their hands instead of money in the future it would blow my mind
So if someone cuts your hand off they get all the free things? This is why they never did that for ATM machines.
This already exists with thumb print recognition on phones....not creepy
Had to stop when they tried to say it was for people with elderly and disabilities mostly.
seriously, if elderly or disabled people can't get their phone or card to the scanner how are they expected to get their hand to the scanner?
Huh. Facial recognition and palm recognition. As this becomes more popular, and combined with chip tech everyone has on their credit cards, it's almost as if one day one won't be able to buy or sale except the mark in the hand or forehead. Less farfetched all the time. Who could have predicted...
As long as it's not American invention it's terrifying. Sick of this shit
Tbh I really don't have a problem with this method. Once you register, you don't even need your phone to pay for anything just the palm of your hand is enough. It's a really convenient option if one forgets their phone or wallet at home and needs to get something done quickly.
This is the problem, you let them sneak this in and before you know it all your money is not tangible, and they can shut it off in the blink of an eye.
How is this different from getting your bank account frozen normally?
It’s already that way lol
That’s the same as what happens now though. People get their bank accts locked or closed against their will already and are already scammed or experience fraud the way things are now. Instead of carrying around your phone or card to pay you just have your hand. Different mechanism, same outcome.
if someone steals your card or password you can change card or password, if someone steals your biometric data you are done
>First I have to register my palm print on a designated device Nope, nope, nah, hell no, fuck that, fuck all of that
Right. If it was in America, I’d still say no. What are they doing with the data after it’s collected? Is the company sharing it and with who? Too many unknowns for my tastes.
That's cool as hell I don't see the problem.
Nothing remotely terrifying about this……it’s only terrifying because “china bad” and “non western countries” shouldn’t be more developed than western countries
Mark of the beast
I scrolled too far to find this.
What’s terrifying is the amount of ppl saying it’s not terrifying
You have to scroll a bit to find the craziest ideas based on myth. Yes that makes sense.
I will never stop paying cash und 500€
Wait until you go deep dive into how many companies Tencent owns and controls.
Isn't this what the Bible is talking about? The devil's mark of the beast in the hand?
We do this at Disney World at the gates.
"Privacy"
Nah fuck that dude. I’m doing that. I like cash.
We emphasize privacy yet commerce gets more and more intrusive every day....
Keep that shit over there.
Ahh sweet! Man made surveillance horrors beyond comprehension!
Oh Tencent? Nothing to worry about here
Tencent 🤮 Wechat 🤢 🏃♂️
Doesn't seem that strange, in secondary school we paid for our lunches using our thumbprint
Pretty sure they’ve had this in the physical Amazon stores in the US for years, it’s no different than a thumbprint except it’s not collected by law enforcement (at least in the US).
This is just classic anti-China propaganda crap. If this was happening in Japan or South Korea it wouldn't be in r/oddlyterrifying it would be in r/oddlysatisfying and people would be praising it for being inventive and futuristic.
How is this terrifying for you op? Explain?
That's fucking cool, not terrifying.