A payment method that transmits the user's bank or credit card data to a terminal via a radio frequency (RF) method. The primary contactless payment technology is the near field communication (NFC) in chip cards that is used with credit cards and payment systems such as Apple Pay and Google Pay.
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These slogans refer to this payment method which entails briefly placing the phone onto the terminal, which in reality means there is a momentary contact, and the "contactless" handle is actually erroneous. Misleading terminology is rampant in the tech field! See
EMV,
contactless and
contactless smart card.