As it was you had choices as a consumer; open, closed - whatever you want. But the thing I deliberately want to choose for is now taken away from me through one of the worst and most unfair business laws I’ve ever seen, that only does harm to the majority of consumers whose choice is taken away and whose privacy and safety is being weakened to destroyed. But “they have a choice to stay in their walled garden” (they just can’t use their phone the way they want and were always used to anymore if they do, but we don’t mention that part and we don’t care those millions of people are getting royally screwed over).

You know, true choice could’ve been achieved if the EU had made a fair law. They didn’t and now we as consumers are going to pay a very heavy price.

There is no option to opt-out of this, the privacy policy states that if you do not wish for Apple to collect this data and share it with your bank that you “must use another card”. In other words: you need to participate and agree to sharing this data with your bank or you can no longer use Apple Pay.

Am I the only one that thinks this is absolutely insane and goes hard against Apple’s promise for privacy? Why on earth would you give the bank all that information including the device location with no way to opt out? I also wonder if this sudden one-sided change is even legal under the GDPR considering Apple did not solicit any permission but simply gave a push notification stating “enhanced fraud protection” has now been enabled and that for any payment this data is now collected by Apple and subsequently shared with the bank.

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