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by aseerdbnarng 1688 days ago
"It is exceedingly complicated. There have to be guardrails and guidelines to protect children, to protect developers, to protect consumers"

I propose a heuristic that whenever 'protect children' gets used there's a high chance its a load of bull

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Apple Pay does protect people. It's one of the most minimal-knowledge payment protocols out there, and if everyone in Target had used Apple Pay, then there would have never been that credit card leak scandal. Target wouldn't even have the information to leak.

I can only hope that Apple Pay is supplanted by something with more privacy and not less.

Also, we have to think if complying wouldn't benefit drug dealers.
I mean, that's all fun and games until your child chokes on toy with pieces that fit into their windpipe, or manage to drink bleach because we were sceptical about child-proof tops.