In another effort to make transactions more secure, contactless payments are on the rise across the world, which allows you to speed through a checkout with a simple tap of a contactless-enabled payment, explains Security Savings Bank Vice President Dorothy Ricketts:
“What happens with that is these contactless cards have a computer chip and a tiny antenna. So instead of sending your card information with the card number and the expiration date and other identifying data on it, there is a code that is generated that has the ability to contact your card issuer to process that payment. It keeps you from having to insert your card, saves a little time for you and for the checkout person, but it also keeps that identifying information about your card from going through the transmissions and being picked up or perhaps getting caught through a skimmer.”
Tap to pay is the way of the future. For more tips on keeping your information secure, listen below:
**Written by WMOI/WRAM Director of Communications Kelsey Crain**
