Looks like the Big Brother RFID Technology is here to stay. We can now shop the Bewitched way- with a BLINK.
Chase Offers Contactless Cards in a Blink
The global financial services firm will issue MasterCard and Visa credit cards embedded with RFID tags to enable a contactless payment service called blink.
May 24, 2005–Last week, Chase’s credit cards division became the first credit card issuer to announce a contactless payments program. Beginning this summer, it will issue MasterCard and Visa credit cards embedded with RFID tags used to make transactions via radio communication with an RFID-enabled payment terminal. Chase calls the contactless functionality ‘blink,’ and plans to begin sending blink cards to millions of MasterCard or Visa cardholders in two undisclosed U.S. cities in late June, according to Scott Rau, senior vice president of payments at JPMorgan Chase & Co, which owns Chase credit cards.
The cards contain an ISO 14443-compliant RIFD tag, used to process payments through an RFID-enabled point-of-sale terminal. Blink cardholders will be able to make payments at select retailers by tapping or holding their cards 4 inches or less from an RFID-enabled terminal, rather than swiping or handing their cards to a cashier. Chase’s efforts to raise consumer awareness of the blink cards will include television, radio, newspaper and billboard advertising, as well as mailings to cardholders.
This ISO 14443-compliant RIFD tag is the same in the REAL ID Government Identity Card.
Damn I hate this.
the worst part is that the theives will soon have the radio device, and be passing you on the street, and having lunch on you !!! OUCH
damn, why can’t people just handwrite receipts, and add/subtract in their minds again….oooohhh the simpler times, how I miss them ; )
rosee, it’s what the times are coming too, and I only have one thing to say about it, “adapt, change, and overcome” ; )
I’m looking for a place where there are no blinking LED’s, people still use their head to calculate, and if the power goes out, they light a candle, and smile. any suggestions??
I’m looking for a place where there are no blinking LED’s, people still use their head to calculate, and if the power goes out, they light a candle, and smile. any suggestions??
Romania 🙂
The power goes out mysteriously at least once a month. Credit cards are only used in major hotels and a few touristy shops in certain cities and everyone here counts out your change the old fashioned way..
Heck many stores and eateries just add up the bill in their head without writing anything down and nobody is the least bit fazed by it 🙂
Now do you see why I love it here? hehe
Pax
can I come too…….LMAO
sounds wonderful, you have followed your heart, ; )
I still refuse my banks’ Debit Cards and demand the good old ATM card instead. RFID has a place in the world but not on a credit card or ID where lack of security can really cost the user/issuer.