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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by throw0101c on Thursday March 21, 2024 @12:49PM (#39781094)
> I love how whenever Apple makes a clearly anti-trust move it's always about privacy.

Who else is going to care about privacy though?

For the payment situation for example, Apple Pay (and Google Pay) use EMV Tokenization so that your actual credit card number is obfuscated:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Pay#Technology

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Pay_(payment_method)#Te...

Credit card numbers are used by retailers to data mine their customers:

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by pionar on Thursday March 21, 2024 @01:12PM (#39781438)
> For the payment situation for example, Apple Pay (and Google Pay) use EMV Tokenization so that your actual credit card number is obfuscated

As does Samsung Pay. As could any number of tap to pay providers, if Apple would let them on iOS.

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by shuckles on Thursday March 21, 2024 @01:30PM (#39781719)
Actually Samsung Pay for the longest time supported MST which was not secure and supported transmission of payment credentials that could be intercepted by a MITM.
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