Property News · January 17, 2015

Contactless payments: should banks force us to use them?


Millions of people happily use the new cards – but what if you don’t want one?Welsh pensioner Maggie Thomas didn’t ask for a contactless credit card, and didn’t want one. But when she objected she was told by her bank she had no choice. Why, she asks, should she be railroaded into taking the new technology?Britain’s banks have issued 54m cards with the contactless symbol, enabling users to simply tap it at a terminal to pay for goods worth up to £20. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
Read more…Contactless payments: should banks force us to use them?