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Big leap forward for wero (feddit.org)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by SrMono@feddit.org to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org

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It seems like there was a big leap forward for wero.

If you search for “wero” in the German news, it seems like a lot of banks activated it yesterday-ish.

Mine is covered 🙂

I’m a little bit disappointed, that my cell phone number is the unique ID for transactions.

Edit:

Tried to search which banks are supported. This is just a selection and even the selector on the wero-webpage is not up-to-date.

Germany: Deutsche Bank, DZ Bank, GLS, Savings Banks Association (DSGV), Postbank, BBBank, Sparkasse, Haspa, Volksbank, Sparda Banken, Ethikbank, Evangelische Bank e.G.,...
France: Société Générale, Crédit Agricole, BNP Paribas.
Other: ING, Rabobank, Revolut.

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[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (8 children)

There are a few red flags that make wero not -privacy friendly. It apparently uses a phone number as identifier, and Android users are required to have revent version with the Google Play Services badware.

It's good to have a local alternative to EMV, but privacy-wise those apps may be worse than EMV cards.

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Can't really get much better. The apps / platform are directly connected to the bank anyway, they know all the personal very detailed info of our lives already - physical address, copies of id cards, full names, parents names, phone numbers, place of employment, etc. if there's one thing we can't escape from is this. As long as things are compartmentalized enough and personal info doesn't leak... Digital money binding us to our owners...

Yesterday I paid online for something using the equivalent in my country (mybway) and less than 5min after I had a push notification in the phone asking if I wanted insurance for my pets (i bought something on a pet store).

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