You hit the nail on the head.
They sell fraud protection.
This technology makes it more necessary.
More money for the cc companies.
Thats very true.
There is no use fighting RFID though. Wal-Mart has adapted it, meaning everyone is going to be using soon.
the biggest issu that i have is… lets say someone wants to set you up for murder… they take something that you baught from your house, lets say a bag of chips… they now go and kill someone and leave your bag of chips at the crime scean. you are now the primary suspect.
that sucks… the technology has good intentions, but it can be used for evil… btu then again so can everything else…
I don’t eat chips.
printing this for consumer law… very interesting
I’m going out and buying a portable RFID receiver and sitting outside the drive through to collect CC numbers. I’ll post picutures of my exotic car collection soon 
a very good read ^^
My buddy works for Tyco’s Sensormatic division. Naturally, he knows a thing or 2 about RFID. He had an interview with Avery, maker of labels, as they are looking to get into RFID on items before they make it to a store. They’d have unique serial numbers, and when the items enter the receiving area, or pass through the checkout, it would know how many are entering or leaving. Eventually, we wouldn’t need cashiers. You’d push your cart through an aisle on your way out, it would tally up your items, charge it to your credit card, and you’d be all set. Perhaps they’d add in that photo into the account, but rather than rely on a human to look at you, they’d use facial recognition software to verify your identity.
I’m not opposed to this. As long as our personal info is well-encrypted, I see no more flaw than we have now with physical cards which RARELY get checked. I’ve gone to Target, many times spending over $100, and never had my ID nor my card checked. It’s up to me, the cardholder, to check my statement and report my card missing the moment I lose it. Otherwise, I have to pay for anything purchased while my card is off on an adventure with some lucky finder.
Keybank just “upgraded” my debit card to this.
While the novelty is nice, if it’s only a mastercard-wide thing then how good is it going to be? I know from being a cashier that most people use mastercards, and most debit cards are mastercards, but…it just doesn’t seem like it will be very widespread.
my cc is maxed so it dont matter lol…damn setting a low ass limit.
werd^ will soon be the “bar code” replacement.
Yep, the company I work for is already selling and has been for a while, selling these tags to walmart, it is mandatory for all walmart top 100 vendors, walmart of course is not raising prices to compensate for the added cost, but still making it mandatory for vendors to have these tags, :roll2: they are not cheap either.
Yeah they aren’t cheap at all. YIKES!
Have you sold any of those to anyone around here?
I cannot believe that no one has mentioned this yet…
“SEE I.D.” For Teh Win.
A friend of mine pointed this out to me 4-5 years ago. On the sig panel of Your plastic, take a sharpie and write SEE ID in big letters. This works two-fold:
1.) It’s not some random scribble, therefore it catches the cashier’s attention even if they just glance at it.
2.) The majority of the min. wage retail clerks will have their basic curiousity peaked/piqued when they see it.
It may be a PITA for You to pull out Your license everytime You use that Credit Card, but I think it’s a good thing. Besides, if you are THAT paranoid about Your credit info, the this is THE WAY to go.
As a matter of fact (and a bit OT), I think anything that makes it “tougher” to use Credit Cards is a GOOD FUCKING THING. Hopefully this will, ever-so-slightly, remind people that they are using their credit and will be paying 15% interest on this $20 purchase for the next 30 years.
In every retail job that I’ve ever worked, I’ve at least glanced @ the sig panel vs. the reciept.
In total, of the ~7 years that I worked near a register, maybe 10% have done the SEE ID method. And EVERYTIME I would ask for ID.
Of those customers, ~75% would be shocked that I asked. About the same % would’ve forgotten that the SEE ID was on there.
FTW
/lesson
-Nick
OMG now I can make one lucky person the grocery store clerk of the month!
:confizzled:
Shit… I wrote SEE PENIS on my card…