Amazon creates a payment system without bank cards or phones

The American company “Amazon”, which has the largest online store in the world, has experienced a great boom that is expected to change the form of financial payments around the world and may extend to changing the form of financial and banking services provided. by banks around the world.

The company was able to design a new financial payment system that relies on “manual wiping” that does not require any type of contact, not through traditional cash, bank cards or even phone applications.

This innovation comes at a time when the world is working hard to reduce direct contact with things and achieve social distancing to reduce the Corona epidemic, which has caused a significant decline in the use of traditional currencies, as this either paper or metal, which are transferred from one person to another and prevail. The belief that it can pass the infection and can pass the virus from person to person.

The American press reports that the company “Amazon” has adopted the palm scan payment system as its own payment system in its various stores and has started the process of actively testing it.

According to the American network (CNBC), the company “Amazon” will present its payment system to the “Whole Food” store in the US state of Seattle, as it will be the first choice among several other proposals that the payment system is expected to offer. .

This system first appeared last September and has now expanded to ten Amazon stores. This system allows buyers to pay by placing their palm over a scanner.

The first time shoppers use the store, they must enter a credit card to be associated with a handprint, so that shoppers can easily pay.

In addition to this technology, the company uses another technology that only depends on the photography of shoppers for their purchases and their exit from the store, and then the technicians are working, and Amazon is currently using this method in its various stores.

And “Amazon” confirmed that they designed the system to be a secure system, especially since the palm-of-the-hand scanning technology is more secure and private than other methods such as facial recognition.