San Francisco: In a bid to combat delivery-related fraud cases, e-commerce giant Amazon is making a section of its drivers take selfies before resuming their duties for the day in order to record and verify their identities using facial recognition from time to time. By asking drivers to take selfies, Amazon could be preventing multiple people from sharing the same account which could screen out anyone who is technically unauthorised from delivering packages, such as criminals. Prior to asking for selfies, the company notified drivers of the new requirement via the Flex app that their biometric data might be collected to confirm their identity from time to time. Hence in contrast, requiring drivers to take selfies seems like a very small demand, the report said. Back in 2016, global ride-sharing company Uber implemented a similar policy that demanded drivers to take selfies before signing into the platform and taking ride requests.

Source: Mint April 21, 2019 03:11 UTC