[Obviously credit card companies have the right to RFID-outfit their cards, and obviously we have the right to take our business elsewhere if we object. Still, is this RFID? It's not clear from the article, and the Slashdot discussion doesn't help much (http://slashdot.org/articles/05/05/19/2313238.shtml?tid=98&tid=172). --Declan] -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Credit Cards with RFID tech? Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 11:59:57 -0400 From: Perez, Jose (TBS) <Jose.Perez@private> To: 'Declan McCullagh' <declan@private> I think Politech people will be interested in this story: The 'wave' of the future J.P. Morgan Chase set to issue new 'contactless' credit card that you wave instead of swipe. May 19, 2005: 11:22 AM EDT NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Tired of swiping your credit card over and over because the magnetic strip is worn? Help is on the way: cards that you just wave, rather than swipe. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (Research), the nation's largest credit-card issuer, said Thursday it will issue a new credit card with so-called "blink" technology that can be waved in front of a special reader, as well as being swiped through a traditional terminal. The nation's No. 2 bank said it will start rolling out the cards this summer and reissue new "blink" cards to existing customers. "We believe these innovative cards with blink will provide merchants and cardmembers with the increased speed and convenience they want at the point-of-sale," Carter Franke, chief marketing officer of the company's credit card division, said in a statement. <http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/19/news/economy/express_pay/index.htm?cnn=yes> _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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