Pay "contact-less" with your phone (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by andylicious1337@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hi guys,

do you know a good and privacy friendly way to pay with your phone (like Google Pay)? I am using Graphene OS on a Pixel 8 and lice in Germany so some services might not be available here 🙈

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[-] datendefekt@feddit.org 20 points 1 week ago

Moreover, personal transaction details of offline digital euro payments would only be known to the payer and the payee, providing a cash-like level of privacy.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/faqs/html/ecb.faq_digital_euro.en.html

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Right.

Because databases are never "hacked" and exfiltrated.

(By hacked, I mean most of the time it's social engineering.)

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

That just goes for all db.

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