Look ma, no hands! Testing Google's Hands Free payments
Look ma, no hands! Testing Google's Hands Free payments
2016-03-06
so now I'm back with my McDonald's haul
how does hands-free actually work well
it uses Bluetooth low-energy Wi-Fi and
location services to determine where you
are and this concept of hands-free isn't
exactly new but PayPal and Laguerre have
experimented with it in the past
Google's hands-free is separate and
totally separate from Android pay now
when we ask Google about security and
tokenization metis is a one-time number
that is used to essentially mask your
credit or debit card information all
Google did was point us to the official
website which says this about security
hands-free never shares your full credit
card number with the store and all your
payment details are stored securely and
shared only with the payment processor
after my first successful transaction I
went back a few more times within the
space at about 20 minutes to buy more
things and each time after that I had to
actually manually approve the
transaction on my phone hands-free is
available in a limited trial rollout in
the South Bay of San Francisco you can
see the location of all the stores in
the app so hands-free it works but now
I'm going to see if I can eat this Apple
play hands-free
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