Can your cell phone be spying on you?

Does the card have a chip?

 

Don't know for sure...could they track the magnetic stripe on the back?

It's not the only card in my wallet of course....so conflicting stripes so to speak.

 

An RFID chip would be easy to track... and probably is being done. They could tell what path you walked in the store, how long you stopped in front of the fountain drink dispenser, the ding-dongs and the porn magazines. Of course the good news is, they can also tell if you washed your hands after using the bathroom, so the waitress could provide a gentle reminder before she tazes you for non-compliance with the local health codes when you reach for the mashed spuds ladle at the buffet.

 

Where was the card during the Corning visit?

In your wallet or left in the truck?

 

Johnnycams ??

 

In my wallet....we only fuel at T/A and Petro....so not many rewards cards needed....only the one!

 

Must have door sensors then.

 

The RFID chips are not always chips in the traditional sense of the word. It does not have to look like an integrated circuit anymore. RFID can be as thin as paper, as flexible as paper and even look like paper now. Nearly all rewards cards have RFID built in. The larger money companies such as Kroger uses them to track customer movement in the store. As tin foil hat as it sounds it is true. Kroger can pull up your member number and know if you get your pork before or after you get the milk. They track how long you stand and contemplate which salsa brand you want to buy.

The hideous ways it could be used are countless, but in the above example Kroger simply is seeking to improve the customer experience, or trying to learn more about how their customers shop and their habits. What business wouldn't?

But yes, in short nearly all reward/member cards have RFID. If the company can afford to utilize it is a whole different issue. The cards are as cheap as the cards without the RFID, it's the sensors in the store and the software that is expensive, not the cards they give away.

 

If your CC has this chip anyone walking by you can scan your CC with available equipment and create another CC. That is why you are seeing now the Aluminum wallets.

Mark

 

By available equipment Mark means any laptop, a $40 RFID reader and a $20 antenna. No joke.