What's in your wallet? Chances are its contents are the same as ours, and everyone else. Identification, a bit of cash, and cards. Oh, the cards. Credit cards, loyalty cards, and discount cards. Every slot in your wallet is probably filled with similar looking cards with a plastic strip.
ach one of those multicoloured rectangles is tied to a system, one that's well established, and we've been using for years. For most shoppers, these plastic cards just...are. They exist. It's how things are done.
...but what if they weren't?
Show Notes:
- Apple Pay
- Google Wallet
- Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX)
- "Retailers Are Disabling NFC Readers To Shut Out Apple Pay" – The Verge
- "Maker Of Apple Pay Competitor Has Already Been Hacked" – re/code
- "In-depth Look At CurrentC And The Personal Data They Want To Collect" – iMore
- "Failed CurrentC" – Snarketing 2.0