Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles
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Using banking and payment apps on Android smartphones with custom ROMs is a problem: A European industry consortium now wants to change that.

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.

  • 20dogs@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    5 hours ago

    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.

    • Leon@pawb.social
      3·
      4 hours 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.