The Biometric Payment Revolution You Never Agreed To

It starts with a quicker checkout and ends with your body turned into corporate infrastructure.

Christina Maas

At a Whole Foods in Seattle, a shopper waves their hand over a black box the size of a napkin.

The device flashes green, a chime sounds, and somewhere inside Amazon’s massive digital empire, another handprint joins the collection.

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