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Mobile industry calls for RFID payment push | Tech News on ZDNet

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The GSM Association has called on manufacturers to build technology for contactless payments into their handsets by the middle of next year


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by JDP 7 weeks ago
Given how "secure" RFID passports and cell phones (tapping and location snooping WITHOUT requiring telco provider cooperation!) have been shown to be (not at all), how will any individual be able to be "responsible" for any breaches associated with mobile payments ... or indeed, be able to "prove" that some payment via that method was unauthorized or fraudulent!? Moreover, will the vendors and suppliers associated with this initiative be able to eschew any liability in that regard?

Plus, we could well be looking at "Minority Report" advertising (and data gathering?) associated with such technology ... leading to a further erosion of what little privacy one might assume they have. Can you say "ad overload" in spades?

Not being a "luddite" here - mobile payments might certainly be a great convenience and commerce enabler. However, having seen what a failure to build in security can cost (BILLIONS in fraud and identity theft, often enabled electronically), will vendors and governments step up to the obvious challenges and risks, or will we once again have visited upon us many BAD unintended (but definitely foreseeable) consequences?
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