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Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles creating an open source alternative to Google Play Integrity (www.heise.de)
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Pay securely with an Android smartphone, completely without Google services: This is the plan being developed by the newly founded industry consortium led by the German Volla Systeme GmbH. It is an open-source alternative to Google Play Integrity. This proprietary interface decides on Android smartphones with Google Play services whether banking, government, or wallet apps are allowed to run on a smartphone.

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[–] 28 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

I don't get why it has to be that complicated anyway. I should be able to just give them my key, why does a OS or device vendor need to be a part of it? When I get a card I need to verify my identity somehow, times past that was me going to the bank, signing a form and showing my ID card. Fucking Tim Apple or Satya McGoogle didn't have a role in that, why should they now?

Sidenote; I know Satya Slopella is Microsoft but I don't frankly care to learn what the pedo in charge of Google is called.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    When I get a card I need to verify my identity somehow, times past that was me going to the bank, signing a form and showing my ID card. Fucking Tim Apple or Satya McGoogle didn’t have a role in that, why should they now?

    The government did though in supplying said ID, so there was a centralised trustable organisation that the bank could depend on for verification.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago

    Exactly. After that, the bank should accept that I wish to pay with my own device without Google, Apple, or Samsung having a say.

    They don’t need GAS approval for me to pay my bills on my computer. Nor to make online purchases on it. Why is it suddenly required on my phone? It’s idiotic.

    If I say that my device is okay, that’s all that should be required.

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