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UK banks prepare for Apple Pay 'invasion', look to slap on bonking protection

gnasher729 Silver badge

Re: Where do Apple fit in?

Where does Apple fit in? Look at recent massive security breaches, like 76 million credit card numbers stolen from one major US retailer alone. With Apple Pay, nobody involved ever learns your credit card number. As a result, no credit card numbers can be stolen. And since the biggest cause of money loss is using stolen credit card numbers for online purchases, every time Apple Pay is used one such scam is prevented. That's why the US banks are paying Apple quite willingly. And it's not as if this isn't widely known by now.

And I'd be curious to know why you wouldn't trust Apple with data security.

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