Mobile wallet technology raises privacy, security concerns

Christopher Hoofnagle quoted in McClatchy Newspapers, March 18, 2013

Consumer protections for mobile payments aren’t really on policymakers’ agendas, said Chris Jay Hoofnagle…. “The FTC knows about these problems and it has written about them, but we’re very early in this process and these types of data transfers are not noticeable to the consumer, so one question is will the consumer ever object?” he said. “Going to mobile payments – unless rules are put in place – will be zero privacy,” he said.