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De-googled contactless payment? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by flashgnash@lemm.ee to c/technology

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I'm trying to move away from Google and other big tech corporations as much as I can without sacrificing practicality but it seems like the only way to make contactless payments is with stock android on a Google approved device.

Is there any alternative out there that would allow me to make contactless payments without these conditions met? (For example, if I put grapheneos on my phone)

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[–] Edo78@feddit.it 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm incline to say that there's no way. I order to have secure payments you have to secure each and every step of the process. Without a big corporation under those steps no one in his right mind will gamble with payments

[–] gerbal 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly, payments processing requires a Chain of Trust where each step can be verified as a known, trusted, actor.

The government could reasonably enact a more open standard using digital currency, but you would still depend on your device being trusted to handle payments.