{"id":5098,"date":"2015-01-17T14:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T07:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/contactless-payments-should-banks-force-us-to-use-them\/"},"modified":"2016-02-18T01:45:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T18:45:02","slug":"contactless-payments-should-banks-force-us-to-use-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/contactless-payments-should-banks-force-us-to-use-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Contactless payments: should banks force us to use them?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nMillions of people happily use the new cards \u2013 but what if you don\u2019t want one?Welsh pensioner Maggie Thomas didn\u2019t ask for a contactless credit card, and didn\u2019t 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\u2019s 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 \u00a320. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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