Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card
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Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card
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Re: Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card
#2Very useful - my citibank credit card used to have a feature like this many years ago (I believe called "virtual card numbers"), but they got rid of it for some reason.
Though I am more likely to give my personal details to citibank than some startup. Trust is a big issue with payment startups.
Re: Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card
#3> STEP TWO
When you check out on any website, the Privacy icon will appear in the card form.
Click it to create a new card, and auto-fill the card form. Use any name and billing address you like.
> STEP THREE After the card is charged, we withdraw the money from your chosen funding account, similar to a debit card.
Not sure I get this. Do you have to fund an account on Privacy.com? So it's like a Paypal where you generate a new payer name every time you pay for some other service with it?
> Sensitive information is encrypted using a split-key encryption with partial keys held by separate employees, meaning no one can decrypt your data; not even us.
Umm. Pretty sure that giving your employees the ability to decrypt my data means that "you" can decrypt it.
Re: Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card
#4Hey HN - Privacy.com co-founder here. I'm really excited to share what we've been working on for the past year and a half or so.
We've been neck-deep in payments stuff on the card issuing side (getting a BIN sponsor, ACH origination, etc), so happy to answer any questions on that front as well.
P.S. For new users, your first $5 donation to watsi.org is on us :)
Re: Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card
#5The stop subscriptions aspect really stood out to me, I had to spend 40 minutes on the phone with that darn company to get things canceled, even though I only used it for one day for an hour.
Re: Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card
#6Hey! Such a great idea! Any chance you guys will work with Amex soon? I use my Platinum and Delta cards for everything.
Re: Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card
#7Is this for only U.S. customers?
Re: Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card
#8> STEP TWO When you check out on any website, the Privacy icon will appear in the card form. Click it to create a new card, and auto-fill the card form. Use any name and billing address you like. > STEP THREE After the card is charged, we withdraw the money from your chosen funding account, similar to a debit card. Not sure I get this. Do you have to fund an account on Privacy.com? So it's like a Paypal where you gen…
Yep that's right, you'll need an account with Privacy.com, and you can use any name or billing address when you spend using a Privacy Visa Card.
Touche, thanks for bringing that up. Updating the language.
Re: Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card
#9Any way this works without a browser extension? I'm assuming such an extension has full access to every single page in order to do its job, which is a huge security risk. You don't need to be reading my emails or passwords.
Re: Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card
#10I understand why you need it, and I want this service in a big way, but I'm just baulking at giving you my online banking username and password. Why should I trust you with that?