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Amazon is reportedly working to allow customers to connect their credit card information to their hands.

Technology giant Amazon is working to allow customers to connect their credit card information to their hands, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The company has reportedly begun working with Visa on testing out the terminals, and has discussed the project with Mastercard, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Synchrony Financial. Amazon has already filed a patent for a "non-contact biometric identification system" that features a "hand scanner" to produce a picture of a person's palm.

People shop at the newly opened Amazon Go Store on May 07, 2019 in New York City. The cashier-less store, the first of this type of store, called Amazon Go, accepts cash and is the 12th such store in the United States located at Brookfield Place in downtown New York.

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