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Zitahli Men's RFID Wallet w/ AirTag Pocket (Crazy Horse Black, Small) on sale for $9.99 - $5 off when you apply promo code
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$4.99.
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Features:
- Money Clip Design - Measuring 4" x 3.5", this slim men's wallet boasts a money clip structure that occupies less space than traditional bill compartments, effectively minimizing bulk. It includes 11 card slots: a quick-access slot on the front, 10 regular slots on the inner card sleeves, and an integrated dedicated AirTag pocket. (AirTag not included)
- Designed for AirTag - The AirTag Wallet Men features a built-in secure pocket holder that keeps your AirTag in place. Its easy-to-use design also provides excellent signal strength, ensuring you never lose your leather wallet again
- RFID blocking shield technology
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And I don't think the primary goal of most people is getting back a stolen wallet with the airtag, but rather find a lost or misplaced one.
Which is what I assume is going on with this style of wallet.
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I bought it to use a backup for extra cards. Its gonna be fun trying to remember what cards are in what slots.
5 Bucks probably not worth the return headache.
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With EMV technology, the information is generated on a current transaction basis and is encrypted and there are some other technical safeguards that result in a single use code being transmitted that is only valid for that transaction with that merchant. It's the same technology, whether you insert the card or tap to pay.
If you want more details, just search for info on EMV enabled cards.
(EMV isn't a cool acronym like "electronically managed validation" or anything like that. It's just an acronym for a Europay, Mastercard and Visa, the companies who developed this technology to reduce fraud.)
The statement "If they can track that RFID they can track the ones in your ID or credit card too" is akin to saying, "If you car has an FM radio, it can listen to your Bluetooth calls over too".
Yes, major retailers use RFID to track inventory. However, inventory systems that use Electronic Product Code (EPC) and similar schemes are operating in the UHF frequency spectrum (860–960 MHz). The effective range is measured in meters. Credit cards use HF frequencies (13.56 MHz) and the range is just a few centimeters.
Frequency incompatibilities are only the tip of the iceberg. The protocol differences between EPC tags and EMV cards are massive. The inventory tags basically just respond to a request with some static information and it's done. EMV chips requires a negotiation and interrogation with multiple steps. These readers talk to one card at a time and if they detect multiple cards, they have to choose one.
Beyond that, the design of the transmission requires the terminal to send information required for a transaction. The card isn't going to provide meaningful responses without the proper transaction context. Attempting to interrogate it outside a legitimate transaction would be fraudulent and violate merchant agreements, as well as likely running afoul of state and federal laws. Even if it was successful, the token sent is randomized and provides little information back to the retailer that would be useful to make a tracking profile. EMV cards and issuing banks share a unique secret key. Only the bank can interpret the cryptograms the card generates, so even if a retailer captured them, they would be meaningless.
So no retailers are building the necessary infrastructure to capture the data that not only would violate their merchant agreements, but also provide little value.
That doesn't mean they aren't tracking you. They are 100% tracking you at every opportunity. Obviously apps and loyalty programs provide massive amounts of data. They are also tracking your phone's wifi pings, bluetooth beacons (even more so if you have their app installed), they are using computer vision with cameras, etc. (And increasingly, license plate readers in some areas to combat organized retail crime.)
So while the RFID blocking wallet causes no harm, it doesn't actually protect you from any of the real tracking that is going on.
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