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AMC Health, the leading provider in telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technology and clinical services, today announced the launch of a Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) programs with Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI) for its Medicare Advantage members. Enrollees identified for participation in the program will be provided with Bluetooth monitoring devices that transmit real-time biometric data to AMC Health clinicians who manage participants with CHF and COPD along with their comorbidities.This biometric data will...

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador criticized the country's telecoms companies on Wednesday for impeding an initiative to create a national biometric cellphone user registry that is opposed both by industry and rights groups. Backed as a measure to improve public safety by the Senate this month, the registry would require companies to pay for collection of their clients' biometric data, which would then be stored and managed by the telecoms regulator. Rights groups say it poses a human rights violation and could lead to wrongful convictions if people's identities ar...

23 Apr 2021 Amazon is reportedly testing its palm-scanning payment technology in Whole Foods, starting with a single store in Amazon’s home city of Seattle. The biometric system identifies not only the customer’s palm print but even the pattern of veins in their hand to identify them for payment processing. The Verge reports that Amazon One, Amazon’s brick-and-mortar retail store, is expanding its palm-scanning payment technology to Whole Foods locations. The first store to test the payment systems is in Amazon’s home city of Seattle. The company has been using Amazon One payment tech...

Tech your username 6 hours ago On Friday, the plaintiffs in the consolidated class action against facial recognition company Clearview AI filed a motion for preliminary injunction and a memorandum in support of the motion related to allegations that the defendants surreptitiously scraped and obtained the plaintiffs’ and class’ photographs and harvested their biometrics to use in the company’s searchable facial recognition database; the plaintiffs asserted that the defendants violated Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act and have failed to sufficiently remedy their conduct on th...

Amazon Expands Payment by Palm Scan to More Stores 10 Mar 2021 E-commerce giant Amazon has reportedly expanded its palm scanning payment tech to more of its physical stores in the Seattle area. A University of Oxford professor pointed out a major disadvantaged of the technology, saying: “You can never change your palm like you change your password or other identification tokens.” The Verge reports that e-commerce and tech firm Amazon is expanding its Amazon One payment system that allows customers to pay by scanning their palms to more physical stores in the Seattle area. The company say...