Google Wallet: the End of Anonymous Shopping

jfruhlinger writes "Google today announced Google Wallet, an NFC-based payment system that will allow people to pay for purchases just by waving their phone across a reader. It's the beginning of a future where commercial transactions are 'frictionless' and convenient — but it's a future where every transaction can be tracked and data-mined, as Dan Tynan points out. Stores can user information about your Doritos purchases to rearrange their wares; Google could push coupons via its new Google Offers service; your health insurance company might be interested in your sodium intake."

Comments

How the hell is this different from credit cards?

[Kuukai]

Aside from being run by Google?

Re:Hyperbole

[pushing-robot]

Also, credit cards, debit cards and checks claim prior art.