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MasterCard PayPass Card Evolves Into Phone :: Symblogogy
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by Edmund Jenks | April 27, 2007 at 08:12 am
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The evolution of “Speed Passing” RFID technology is making its way on many fronts.
Many sports franchise venues are beginning to place systems at their PoS cashpoints that accept MasterCard’s RFID enabled PayPass Card.
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Also, Nokia wants to turn the phone you carry into a "Speed Pass" machine. With this announcement, a fan may not even have to carry a credit card anymore. Nokia and MasterCard PayPass have been negotiating with many of the major mobile telecom service providers to transform how people can pay for goods and services.
When this plan is implemented, Fans and other consumers will not have to carry a card anymore --- just wave a RFID MasterCard PayPass chip enabled phone over the reader at the PoS cashpoint, and off you go.
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Edmund Jenks
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at 07:52 on April 27th, 2007
Edmund Jenks, nice find, though let the record show that RFID scares the you-know-what outta me in terms of privacy and information security. Still, those lil' chips are turning up in more and more places.
at 09:25 on April 27th, 2007
Thanks for the GS Check. I will update the original posting at Symblogogy to reflect this.
Jordan, I'm with you. Look, I do not even mess with ATM cards because of the potential threat to safety and identity.
at 09:50 on April 27th, 2007
A few weeks ago I saw one of the new New Zealand passports, with a big ol' RFID wafer in it. I shivered.
at 20:02 on April 27th, 2007
Wafer shiver?
Barcode & DB can accomplish the same thing.
What are you shivering about any way? Big Brother is going to track us? That day will never come. In the end, Big Brother can only F.U.
Here in Japan, all the mobile technology ROCKS!