this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2024
211 points (94.5% liked)

Privacy

31782 readers
335 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Related communities

Chat rooms

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] refalo 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

google wallet in general will not work.

also bank apps utilizing NFC is not a thing in the US

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah yes, a feature that I'd never be able to live without /s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The university that I'm at is trying to get new students to use a digital student id that uses google wallet for scanning I think. They aren't giving any new students physical student id's unless they need it for something that doesn't work with the digital ones.

So yeah some people do need google wallet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Google Wallet works though. It's just NFC and credit card payments that don't. If you can add tickets and passes with barcodes, student ID will work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

The student id's use nfc here. Nothing to scan.

[–] moonpiedumplings 1 points 1 month ago

Cal state northridge?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why not? You van set up a separate profile and install gplay services so pretty much anything would work under these conditions I assume

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"I assume" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

as someone who runs GrapheneOS and looked into the possibility of doing contactless payments: no. it simply does not work. all the contactless payment apps can somehow detect you're not running the stock OS for the phone and choose to lock themselves down.

cashapp and venmo will also freeze your accounts almost immediately upon installation and login and, in my case with cashapp, insinuate you may be reported to law enforcement for fraud when you appeal with info about your phone lmao

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Didnkot expect that, thanks for the details.