It’s no less secure than keeping your phone in your wallet like all but the most paranoid of us do, and it’s more convenient than Google pay. Plus it comes with the benefit of not sharing your purchase history with an ad company, and lets you use a much more secure and private OS. Your call, but seems like an easy choice to me.
Oops meant card. Most people carry their card in their wallet and use a pay app on their phone, so their card can get skimmed if the card is in their phone case or their wallet. While everyone has different risk tolerance, the actual risk of encountering fraud like skimming physical cards in wallets or at the register is small enough to not be a show stopper for most people.
My wallet has blocked RFID signals for the past ten years which has advantages but also sucks when I use to use a bus card or a student id I couldn’t tap my wallet but rifle through it. My city’s buses uses a qr code thingy ready2ride so you scan in with your phone and tickets can now last 3 hours instead of one use which is amazing for grocery shopping or a night out
It’s still in development but is being built specifically with GrapheneOS in mind. Hopefully we should have a privacy focused tap-to-pay within a year.
You can still use Google wallet if you’re happy to accept Google services in full. Also, Curve has touchless payment that doesn’t require Google’s stuff. You do obviously trade Google for another company to slurp up your data, so it’s not a perfect solution.
It’s tap to pay (or use the public transit) that’s keeping me back.
Put your card in your phone case.
I don’t use a phone case and it’s less secure besides.
It’s no less secure than keeping your phone in your wallet like all but the most paranoid of us do, and it’s more convenient than Google pay. Plus it comes with the benefit of not sharing your purchase history with an ad company, and lets you use a much more secure and private OS. Your call, but seems like an easy choice to me.
What do you mean by this? Most people don’t carry a wallet big enough to store a phone.
Oops meant card. Most people carry their card in their wallet and use a pay app on their phone, so their card can get skimmed if the card is in their phone case or their wallet. While everyone has different risk tolerance, the actual risk of encountering fraud like skimming physical cards in wallets or at the register is small enough to not be a show stopper for most people.
Ah, that makes a lot more sense lol
My wallet has blocked RFID signals for the past ten years which has advantages but also sucks when I use to use a bus card or a student id I couldn’t tap my wallet but rifle through it. My city’s buses uses a qr code thingy ready2ride so you scan in with your phone and tickets can now last 3 hours instead of one use which is amazing for grocery shopping or a night out
I’m not worried about some nebulous theft; the not sharing of a card number with a merchant is what I’m referring to.
Check out WALT
It’s still in development but is being built specifically with GrapheneOS in mind. Hopefully we should have a privacy focused tap-to-pay within a year.
You can still use Google wallet if you’re happy to accept Google services in full. Also, Curve has touchless payment that doesn’t require Google’s stuff. You do obviously trade Google for another company to slurp up your data, so it’s not a perfect solution.
Google wallet does not work on graphene even with Play Services installed