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Re:Apple Pay on pace to account for 10% of global card trans... by alteria on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @11:34PM (#22305820)
It's worth noting that the merchant, bank, and credit card issuer can and do regularly sell that information off in de-identified form. Card networks especially like monetizing the data since it's very powerful.

I can't find the page describing the program on Visa's website, but their privacy opt-out describes it pretty well [1].

[1] https://usa.visa.com/legal/privacy-policy-opt-out.html

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Re:Apple Pay on pace to account for 10% of global card trans... by neuronic on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @05:46AM (#22307730)
Yes but they'd do it every time you use your card anyways. So back to cash only? In the US you're screwed without using credit cards and in Europe I would not want to go back out of convenience.

Carrying 800 grams of coins around me all the time sucks.

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