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Posted on 01/23/2015 9:03:29 AM PST by House Atreides
A Missouri lawmaker is pushing a measure that would require identification each time a person uses Apple Pay with their iPhone or other mobile payment systems on their non-Apple phones. “Democratic Rep. Joshua Peters of St. Louis says the bill he introduced Wednesday requires customers to show a state driver’s license or other identification when they use a mobile wallet app or other electronic payment system...
... “Merchants would have to record the license or identification number or could be responsible for the illegal purchases made if a device is reported stolen.”
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How hard is it to steal your card number? That is not possible with ApplePay.
No one can use it except you. ApplePay requires YOUR living fingerprint to be used. Without your finger, it will not work to do a dang thing. Only YOU, personally, can make a purchase. No one else.
How hard is it to lose your phone?
Hmmmmm. . . fodder for the next data breach. . . Can you say ID theft? Even Home Depot, Target, Sony, Michaels, JP Morgan, or Community Health Systems data breaches DID NOT HAVE Drivers License numbers! This Democrat legislator has identified a major hole in their data! He's brilliant! What a genius! He's filling that lack of data the ID thieves would love to get their hands on!
That doesn't matter. Only you can use ApplePay. First of all only the owner of the iPhone can open the iPhone. . . or use ApplePay because it requires the owner to use their living finger, not a mere copy of a fingerprint, to activate it. Merely losing your phone, or having a thief steal it, will not give the finder or the thief access to ApplePay. It is secure. That's why the major credit card and banks have accepted it and the liability that goes along with using it. They think they will be saving HUGE amounts from the decrease in credit and debit card fraud with ApplePay.
In addition, once you know you've lost or had your iPhone stolen, you can deactivate your iPhone remotely from any computer, turning it into a useless brick for anyone except its true owner, you. Only you can restore it to functional use and that requires your AppleID. That STILL won't get them access to ApplePay.
Sorry, your point is not valid.
Mastercard paid him off for the legislation effort
Make no mistake the Rats want to track what everyone is buying.
If you want to do it, then that should be your business.
It’s not some crook politician that wants to get in your wallet.
HE WHO SPEAKS OUT OF IGNORANCE..... becomes a Democrack
I’m not saying it’s a bad system, just that I will require some time to decide that it is an overwhelmingly good system. Just not an early adopter here.
That’s racist.
The lobbyists for Google, Paypal and the credit card companies is pushing this.
“The lobbyists for Google, Paypal and the credit card companies is pushing this.”
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I don’t think so...both Google and Paypal absolutely hate Apple Pay and have competing “mobile payment” processes (e.g., Google Wallet) that have gone nowhere and are, in essence, failing in the marketplace. And Paypal is suing Google (and several former Paypal employees who left to go work for Google) for theft of trade secrets. The courts will have to settle that suit somehow unless Paypal and Google don’t first simply give up the fight since their systems are not competing effectively with Apple Pay.
You don’t think so?
You mean Google and Paypal wouldn’t benefit from this highly restrictive law?
Who has more customers? Apple or Paypal?
Nobody would benefit from the law. Apple Pay would be most HURT by it as it is the mobile payment system that seems on its way to success.
By the way, the 2nd coming of Christ will happen before this ‘RAT idiot’s stupid proposal becomes law.
Your credit card gives far more information to the merchant via the mag stripe on the card than apple pay does. From that, they only get a tokenized one time number.
All things being equal, convenience wise, which would you rather use? And which one is more secure?
If Apple Pay is hampered, how does that not benefit the others?
They will prevent Apple from success or seriously hamper it, protecting their market share.
If Apple Pay isn’t encumbered by special rules and laws, designed to blunt their efforts, then Google, PayPal, et all will absolutely lose market share.
Hence, more free drinks at the Willard...
Oops, didn’t see your 2nd coming statement.
Agreed.
Yeah, exactly. Ask this rat pig what he thinks about voter id.
Back when people rented videos, it was harder to do that in some states than vote.
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