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ssfe11 said:

Finally for Home Depot! Absolutely luv Apple Pay!

Not long before Apple Pay went live, Home Depot suffered what was for its time an enormous data breach, spilling information from magnetic strips on credit cards (which include names, addresses, dates of birth, and account numbers — everything identity thieves needed to pose as cardholders). I remember trying, on a credit card’s discussion forum, how Apple Pay would prevent spillage of such information, because (1) no unhashed information was passed in the transaction, and (2) no information at all would be communicated to the merchant (where it could eventually be stolen), other than that the issuing bank had approved payment. Walmart, of course, persists in trying to make money off its customers personal information, an antiquated and (to judge by the most recent  antitrust rulings against Alphabet) increasingly illegal business strategy.

sbdude said:

When the fed cuts interest rates, so do banks. This isn't news, and it isn't just Apple.