OK Now For Videos!
Nov. 2nd, 2024 03:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutAfter discussing this with Rorschach for a bit, I went looking for the agency and local TV videos that he thought probably covered the Tap to Ride rollouts. I found the expected ones for my region. Then I went looking more generally on YouTube.
This is someone who thinks we should go with something like Japan’s Suica et al universe:
https://youtu.be/vxFaSYuuc2w?si=5iH455VLvFDKWKw1
No worries, this will never happen.
That video shot a curbed NY article. I didn’t find the one it referenced, but did find this:
https://ny.curbed.com/2019/5/22/18617849/nyc-subway-mta-omny-contactless-payment-system
This is one of the articles shot in the youtube:
https://ny.curbed.com/2019/10/3/20895736/mta-omny-privacy-surveillance-report
Buried in that article is this sentence: “The MTA also collects trip data from Metrocards and trips can be connected to specific riders if they purchase one with a debit or credit card, and that information can be subpoenaed.” If I understand that correctly, OMNY is not necessarily any worse from a privacy/surveillance perspective than the Metrocard which preceded it.
One of the arguments made in the youtube at the top is that transit operators make money by running their own cards. This is roughly the argument made for years in favor of “store cards” (like for departments stores or whatever) vs. “normal” EMV payment cards. It’s not wrong. Also, why a consumer should care is super unclear to me. Also, it is deeply hilarious to see how just a couple years ago, all the NFC tap stuff was focused mostly on cards, and now it is exclusively on phones and wearables.
This is someone who thinks we should go with something like Japan’s Suica et al universe:
https://youtu.be/vxFaSYuuc2w?si=5iH455VLvFDKWKw1
No worries, this will never happen.
That video shot a curbed NY article. I didn’t find the one it referenced, but did find this:
https://ny.curbed.com/2019/5/22/18617849/nyc-subway-mta-omny-contactless-payment-system
This is one of the articles shot in the youtube:
https://ny.curbed.com/2019/10/3/20895736/mta-omny-privacy-surveillance-report
Buried in that article is this sentence: “The MTA also collects trip data from Metrocards and trips can be connected to specific riders if they purchase one with a debit or credit card, and that information can be subpoenaed.” If I understand that correctly, OMNY is not necessarily any worse from a privacy/surveillance perspective than the Metrocard which preceded it.
One of the arguments made in the youtube at the top is that transit operators make money by running their own cards. This is roughly the argument made for years in favor of “store cards” (like for departments stores or whatever) vs. “normal” EMV payment cards. It’s not wrong. Also, why a consumer should care is super unclear to me. Also, it is deeply hilarious to see how just a couple years ago, all the NFC tap stuff was focused mostly on cards, and now it is exclusively on phones and wearables.