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Silicon Valley’s final frontier for mobile payments — ‘the neoliberal takeover of the human body’
Market Watch ^ | 8 Sep 19 | Quentin Fottrell

Posted on 09/08/2019 5:54:39 AM PDT by SkyPilot

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To: SkyPilot

I love these threads. So hilarious. All the posturing fools pretending they won’t be participating. Guys are funny.


21 posted on 09/08/2019 7:09:55 AM PDT by discostu (I know that's a bummer baby, but it's got precious little to do with me)
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To: SkyPilot

Should use this for Voter ID


22 posted on 09/08/2019 7:15:32 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

A corrupt government won’t need an army of officers to enforce its will with this technology.

With a click of a button they could apply a do not buy policy to millions of people they consider deplorable.

Think about that.


23 posted on 09/08/2019 7:20:12 AM PDT by crusher2013
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To: jdsteel
Using my face or fingerprint to buy something I want and do so securely doesn’t scare me. Now having the government track me, trace me, listen to me and store my digital history is a different story. And what Democrats want is to merge the government and corporations like they’ve done in China.

I doubt you'll get one without the other.

24 posted on 09/08/2019 7:22:02 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: FatherofFive
Should use this for Voter ID

I'm glad you brought that up. That, and sexual pleasures, are the only two areas where liberals are suddenly the champions of privacy and anonymity.

25 posted on 09/08/2019 7:26:13 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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26 posted on 09/08/2019 7:40:10 AM PDT by bgill
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To: A_perfect_lady
the only two areas where liberals are suddenly the champions of privacy and anonymity.

Their hypocrisy boggles the mind. They are always for choice - as long as you choose exactly what they want.

27 posted on 09/08/2019 7:43:00 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: SkyPilot

Building the architecture for totalitarian CONTROL. Trending. Thanks for posting.


28 posted on 09/08/2019 7:50:03 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: bert
What exactly is the problem?

Going through a device you own gives you a minimal amount of control.

Being scanned as you stand at the checkout counter, takes that minimal control away. if they can scan you at the checkout counter, they can scan you at the door, in the aisles, as you walk by on the street, when you drive by, show up at a baseball game, peacefully assemble...

...and you have absolutely no control over it.

It would be like this, without the cabbies:

Remember when the Vietcong took over Huế? They were able to round up every government official, march them all off into the jungle and kill every last one of them in one single night.

They knew exactly where they lived, who they visited, where they shopped and where they ate dinner, and when.

How you ask?

The cabbies had been providing the Vietcong daily reports on their every move for years in advance.

This! On steroids. Deplorables can be identified by their associations, tracked by their daily schedules, doxxed and persecuted where they work, eat, and frequent, or simply eliminated.

The left has shown no hesitation doxxing 12 year old girls. In the 'don't be evil' google world, following a face to ground is not only doable, but would earn googcoin bounties!

29 posted on 09/08/2019 7:52:30 AM PDT by null and void (After those deliberate lies THEY owe it to me to be honest, I don't owe them to be less suspicious.)
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To: dp0622

Since I don’t actuqally go to many stores, I can’t provide testimony for all. At 77, I don’t really have the need to buy a lot of stuff.

I am advised that the technology in various forms is activly if not primarily used in China. in China, you have an ap that knows your bank account. That ap allows access to merchant aps, say McDonalds or Pizza Hut. You call up your bank ap that then calls up the Pizza hut ap that allows you to place an order. The transaction is processed.

I can and sometimes open up my Pizza Hut ap and order a pizza delivered. Since I most often order the same thing, it is easy peazy. The Pizza Hut Ap knows my credit card. This is the reverse of the way I understand they process similar ations in China.

You show the phone receipt and the transaction is completed and you get your pizza. I think we have some similar systems but they are not widely in use yet. Mc Donalds took a step backward and introduced Kiosks which essentially do what you can do on your phone if McDonalds used existing technology.

Walmart has gone into online ordering with store pickup big time. The phone ordering/ payment technology is in use on a fairly large scale at Walmart. They have in fact reordered their merchandise floor plans where every item is physically numerically located to facilitate quick location by the employees filling the online orders.

Footnote: Lowes has Lowespay which is a phone pay system the details of which I don’t know..... yet

Walmart above all merchants knows their customers. Walmart is currently experimenting with the technology for making traansaction accurate an easy using the computer all young and most old customers carry around thinking it is a phone.


30 posted on 09/08/2019 7:52:48 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: bert

You control giving the pool the finger.


31 posted on 09/08/2019 7:53:43 AM PDT by null and void (After those deliberate lies THEY owe it to me to be honest, I don't owe them to be less suspicious.)
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To: null and void

Paranoia....... better stay at home or they’ll get ya’


32 posted on 09/08/2019 7:55:52 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: FatherofFive
Should use this for Voter ID

No. Never. You be racis'!

33 posted on 09/08/2019 7:56:53 AM PDT by null and void (After those deliberate lies THEY owe it to me to be honest, I don't owe them to be less suspicious.)
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To: SkyPilot
“I used my iPhone to pay, and I unlocked it with my face”

Hillary Clinton has broken several I-Phones that way.

34 posted on 09/08/2019 7:57:33 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: bert

It’s a little late for that warning.

OTOH, Andy Grove, founder of Intel, said “Only the paranoid survive.”


35 posted on 09/08/2019 8:00:53 AM PDT by null and void (After those deliberate lies THEY owe it to me to be honest, I don't owe them to be less suspicious.)
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To: SaveFerris

I don’t see you on this thread...


36 posted on 09/08/2019 8:01:39 AM PDT by null and void (After those deliberate lies THEY owe it to me to be honest, I don't owe them to be less suspicious.)
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To: bert; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; Travis McGee; ...

At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son

The biggest killer of mankind

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...


37 posted on 09/08/2019 8:02:56 AM PDT by null and void (After those deliberate lies THEY owe it to me to be honest, I don't owe them to be less suspicious.)
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To: SkyPilot

“: We are just one small step away from paying with our bodily features alone.”

So . . . I’ve been getting paid cause of my body “parts” for years.
Now I guess I can pay with it?

But it won’t fit in the slot.


38 posted on 09/08/2019 8:03:25 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: SkyPilot

The Ruling Left is always trying to build a better prison.


39 posted on 09/08/2019 8:27:07 AM PDT by indthkr
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To: SkyPilot

The 666 Mark of the Beast is coming sooner than people want to believe.

God’s Word is absolutely true, this prophecy concerning the Mark of the Beast will be fulfilled 100%. And what we see taking place with bar codes, cashless societies, chip implants, and cashless facial/biometric transactions are all a prelude and preparation for its implementation.

The masses (especially the young) are being CONDITIONED to wholeheartedly receive it when it comes, and EVERYONE who accepts the Mark of the Beast is ETERNALLY DAMNED, with ZERO chance of salvation, redemption or eternal life... ZERO!

Wake up, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and receive Him as your personal savior before it is eternally too late.


40 posted on 09/08/2019 8:38:04 AM PDT by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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