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Any privacy-respecting apps to use for my phone to make NFC? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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So, I was about to pay for a lunch using NFC, but then I checked on my phone and the only NFC apps it has are Google and Samsung's.

Which apps I can use to do NFC that will not sell all my bank data?

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[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I will check on that but I had thought that the point of moving from mag stripe to chip cards was to stop exposing the card number. The is instead a 2 way encrypted conversation between the chip and the bank server. I had expected the phone app to do about the same thing.

Also, payment terminals (I was once pretty familiar with them) are likely to be more secure than phones.

[–] tekato@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah you’re right. Mastercard says tapping your card also sends a tokenized version or the card number.