Square announces the Register, a $999 point-of-sale device for larger businesses

Re:Square announces the Register, a $999 point-of-sale devic... by lstamour on Monday October 30, 2017 @06:46PM (#15589666)

Or use Apple Pay (etc.) with the new contactless reader, then only your credit card network and bank can identify you based on the transaction.

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Re:Square announces the Register, a $999 point-of-sale devic... by Artemis2 on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @03:18AM (#15591560)

Not really. The token merchants/payment processors get is very easily trackable across transactions. It is a bit harder to link to a real card number though.

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Re:Square announces the Register, a $999 point-of-sale devic... by dogma1138 on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @04:57AM (#15591808)

Since you see transactions that occur on the card off Apple pay in the wallet also im pretty if Apple wanted they could just sell API access to 3rd parties banks and issuers already have that access possibility also payment processors.

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Re:Square announces the Register, a $999 point-of-sale devic... by Artemis2 on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @05:25AM (#15591897)

I don’t think Apple could sell transaction data:

> Apple Pay retains anonymous transaction information such as approximate purchase amount. This information can’t be tied back to the user and never includes what the user is buying.

https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf, page 38.

They don’t have much information that the issuing bank/card network do not have already.

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