Amazon One - Palm Recognition – Rolled Out Nov. 18, 2023
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One palm recognition is highly secure
Unlike a credit card or password, your Amazon One palm signature can’t be
replicated to impersonate you. Amazon One does not use raw palm images to
identify a person. Instead, it looks at both palm and underlying vein structure
to create a unique numerical, vector representation—called a palm signature—for
identity matching. Amazon One recognizes the difference between a real live palm
and a replica. We even tested Amazon One with more than 1,000 silicone and 3D
printed palms.
Your data is
safeguarded in the AWS cloud
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud protects sensitive customer data by offering
enhanced security capabilities not available on other devices. When you scan
your palm, the images are immediately encrypted and sent to a highly secure zone
in the AWS Cloud, custom-built for Amazon One.
We won't share your palm data
with anyone
Amazon One will never share palm data with government agencies or advertisers,
under any circumstance. Unless we're required to comply with a legally valid and
binding order. Your palm data is not used by Amazon for marketing purposes, and
will not be bought by or sold to other companies for advertising, marketing, or
any other reason.
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Amazon’s One palm biometrics readers for businesses get a lukewarm introduction
A contactless palm biometric service from Amazon reportedly is
being adopted by a few
organizations, one of
which is an Amazon unit.
One Enterprise, an expansion of
Amazon's
retail-centric One
palm ID authentication hardware and software, is “in preview in the U.S.,”
according to the company’s announcement. It is not clear what “in preview”
means, but it doesn’t sound like the service is being gobbled up by the market.
The service is designed for single-business and campus use. People entering a
controlled space or needing to access restricted software and data would hold
their palms over a One reader. Palm and vein templates would be scanned and
compared to offer or withhold rights.
One Enterprise supports access
control protocols including the SIA’s
Open Supervised Device Protocol and Wiegand,
according to Amazon. The company claims it is 99.999 percent accurate but does
not offer information supporting that statistic.
The service is seen by Amazon, at least in some instances, as beginning with
installation of One scanner stations and then connection to its AWS management
console software. Control of the hardware and software would be centralized
under that code.
Those enrolling in One Enterprise could do it by hovering their palms over the
scanner to link that template with any identification required by the company.
Biometric enrollment could also be done in a dedicated office.
All personally identifying
data from a scan would be encrypted using a unique key.
The service will be part of
People Flow systems
made by Kone, a maker of elevators and escalators, according to the company.
Amazon’s Global Security for
AWS data centers apparently use One Enterprise to some extent already and there
reportedly are plans to expand it to all data centers.
Door and turnstile maker Boon Edam Americas has endorsed the service without
expressly committing to purchases. Boon Edam says the biometric service would be
a valuable addition to its product line, although no commitment is made in its
statement in Amazon’s announcement. Executives likely will use it as an upsell.
From a buyer perspective,
IHG Hotels & Resorts, which
has 6,000 hotels,
talking in the announcement about
its goal to use One Enterprise
for employee access. Paznic, which makes security systems for bank safe deposit
rooms, says in Amazon’s announcement that it looks forward to adding One
Enterprise to its menu.
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