Red Rocks Amphitheater, one of the crucial recognizable live performance venues within the US, now not plans to make use of Amazon’s palm scanning know-how for ticketless entry. Activists and artists together with Fight for the Future, Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine) and Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill) to chorus from utilizing on the venues it manages.

“We haven’t been in contact with Amazon in several months and this isn’t a planned activation at Red Rocks,” Denver Arts and Venues advertising and communications director Brian Kitts wrote in an e-mail . “I’m not sure what the future of this technology is, but at this point it doesn’t involve our venues.”

Amazon in September that it was increasing the tech past its shops for the primary time at Red Rocks and different venues, together with sports activities stadiums. Hundreds of artists, activists and human rights teams known as on Red Rocks, its ticketing supplier AXS and AXS mother or father AEG to drop the know-how and to ban all biometric surveillance at their venues.

Those who signed cited considerations about Amazon sharing palmprint knowledge with authorities companies that search to trace marginalized folks and activists. They additionally expressed fear that palm knowledge could possibly be stolen from the cloud by hackers. They’re hoping the letter will persuade different reside leisure firms and venues throughout the US to keep away from utilizing techniques that gather biometric knowledge.

“Red Rocks’ decision to abandon Amazon palm scanning puts the venue on the right side of history, as a defender of human rights and the privacy of music fans,” Fight for the Future campaigner Leila Nashashibi said. “Other venues should similarly listen to the hundreds of artists, organizations and fans who don’t see this technology as “convenient” however acknowledge it as a instrument of company surveillance and super-charged state violence.”

Engadget has contacted Amazon and Denver Arts and Venues for remark.