Innovation

Amazon’s ‘Just Walk Out’ Tech Is a Privacy Nightmare

HIDDEN COSTS

Frictionless checkout may speed up your day, but it will also accelerate our worst fears about data collection.

Leif Weatherby
Leif Weatherby
opinion
A scanner at an entrance turnstile of a new Starbucks store partnered with Amazon Go.
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Leif Weatherby

Leif Weatherby

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