{"id":1620548,"date":"2022-08-23T15:02:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T19:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1620548"},"modified":"2022-08-23T16:22:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T20:22:45","slug":"move-over-freedom-actor-russell-brand-warns-about-amazons-new-convenient-way-to-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/move-over-freedom-actor-russell-brand-warns-about-amazons-new-convenient-way-to-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Move Over Freedom\u2019: Actor Russell Brand Warns About Amazon\u2019s New Convenient Way To Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmove-over-freedom-actor-russell-brand-warns-about-amazons-new-convenient-way-to-pay%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1620548&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Superstar Russell Brand warned about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/amazon\">Amazon<\/a>\u2018s new palm payment convenience system the company launched in California and Texas and said it\u2019s one step closer to giving away our freedom.<\/p>\n<p>During the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/actor-russell-brands-unloads-on-nancy-pelosi-youve-gotta-be-fing-kidding-me\">47-year-old<\/a> actor\u2019s \u201cAwakening with Russell\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a0ISGLpWXUI\">show<\/a>\u00a0Monday, Brand highlighted the fact that Whole Foods stores were installing palm scanning payment systems and all\u00a0it takes is a \u201cwave of the hand\u201d to pay for one\u2019s groceries. In the video titled \u201cIt\u2019s Happening,\u201d the host talked about the \u201cnefarious nature of big tech\u201d and asked if this kind of biotech is like another \u201csnitch\u201d from the company which he said has a history of \u201cstealing your data\u201d and giving it law enforcement.\u00a0It starts at the :57 minute mark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a0ISGLpWXUI\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMove over freedom more like,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trying-to-f-up-ordinary-people-russell-brand-rants-against-the-great-reset-green-energy-agenda\">Brand<\/a> said. \u201cIt\u2019s not only ApplePay who\u2019s the competitor here. It\u2019s the concept of liberty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that the \u201cmentality behind these ideals, behind these advances often includes data capture, increased power for companies like Amazon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we know Amazon have relationships with the police state, with CIA, with the FBI, with the government, have been guilty of handing over data without consent before,\u201d Brand shared. \u201cOughten we be querying whether or not this is simply for our convenience or right from the get go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the piece, the star played various news segments with reporters\/anchors talking about how all it takes is for a person to \u201chover their palm over the device\u201d to pay for your items, repeating the same mantra, just a \u201cwave of the hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018All you gotta do is see Kylie there\u2019s a little device down here\u2026\u201d The actor said in a character voice. \u201c\u2018It\u2019s not like it says literally in the Bible that the mark of the beast will be rendered in the palm of your hand or anything like that. Don\u2019t worry just walk face first into Armageddon without questioning it. It\u2019s convenient having an Apocolaypse.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then mocked one reporter claiming how inconvenient it\u2019s been to pull out a card out of one\u2019s wallet to pay for things, before he took a swipe at President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not all Joe Biden that can\u2019t carry out rudimentary, simple procedures,\u201d Russell said, adding sarcastically. \u201cAre we? Or if you got nothing to hide, you\u2019ve got nothing to fear. Just give all your data to Amazon and let them give that data to whoever they want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s just hope there\u2019s never a point when they start saying \u2018what are your political beliefs?&#8217;\u201d he added. \u201cThe social credit score you. \u2018Do you have the medications we want. Do you believe what we want you to believe. Are you interested in freedom are ya? You\u2019re not interested in controlling your own life are you?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust wave your hand,\u201d Brand continued. \u201cBye, bye freedom. Bye.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russell later pointed out that \u201cin the past\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/amazon\">Amazon<\/a> made similar assurances to customers worried about devices like Alexa and the Ring camera and that they could be used to \u201cspy on\u201d people.\u201d He said it seems like every time Amazon \u201cintroduces some new convenience\u201d it turns out to be some \u201clittle snitch\u201d telling the CIA and the FBI exactly what\u2019s under your bed.\u201d He said the company promised that all that data is uploaded to the cloud and said, sarcastically, it\u2019s nothing to worry about.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cGet Him to The Greek\u201d star went on to explain how those concerns were later found to be warranted after the company admitted to storing \u201cAlexa voice data,\u201d selling \u201cbiometric facial recognition services to the U.S. law enforcement\u201d and the Ring camera company working with police as well, citing an article from <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/08\/10\/amazon-expands-palm-scanning-payment-tech-to-65-more-whole-foods-locations\/\">Tech Crunch<\/a>. It comes at the 6:45 minute mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superstar Russell Brand warned about Amazon\u2018s new palm payment convenience system the company launched in California and Texas and said it\u2019s one step closer to giving away our freedom. During the 47-year-old actor\u2019s \u201cAwakening with Russell\u201d show\u00a0Monday, Brand highlighted the fact that Whole Foods stores were installing palm scanning payment systems and all\u00a0it takes is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1565077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1620548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1620548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1565077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}