Re: Contactless card query
Originally Posted by
effingpot
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it's still new for a lot of people. My mum used it for the first time this weekend and felt quite excited to be a modern woman .
The contactless card system serves no purpose whatsoever in practical terms. It doesn't speed up queues at tills, it isn't cheaper for the banks to operate, it isn't any safer.
It has but one single purpose, which is . . .
to pave the way for human RFID tagging
Your are simply being conditioned to accept an electronic device as an ID marker which can be used to make payments. Soon enough that electronic ID marker will be implanted under your skin between your thumb and index finger.
Thousands of people are already trialling this RFID tagging technology. The use of contactless cards to make payments is a scam or ruse to show just ONE small application of this technology. The more invasive and nefarious uses are to "bag and tag" you like a criminal on parole so that your every movement can be recorded wherever you go. There will be hidden tag readers everywhere you go, every shop, outlet, public area, station, theatre and so on.
If you accept contactless cards for payments you are allowing yourself to be preconditioned for an Orwellian 1984 style ankle tag, except that the tag will be implanted in your hand. Don't go there. It will herald the total end of your privacy as a human, as an individual. It will be the equivalent of accepting that 666 mark of the beast.
Google "Human RFID tagging" and educate yourself.