Hi, nowadays a lot of places online only accept payment via one of the three options mentioned. Privacy wise, which is my best option? My thread model is mainly based on surveillance capitalism.
Hi, nowadays a lot of places online only accept payment via one of the three options mentioned. Privacy wise, which is my best option? My thread model is mainly based on surveillance capitalism.
If you pay with a third party, your data goes to them and whoever is providing the account behind it. So if you have your credit card in PayPal, your data goes to PayPal, the credit card provider, and your bank. If you use the credit card directly, it’s just the CC provider and your bank.
There’s a third party between the payment system (website, point of sales systems, card terminals, etc) and the card’s provider who also has access to the transaction data in the latter example. These payment systems don’t interact with visa/mc/whatever directly.
The tradeoff is you will be giving the merchant your cc info instead, which is not really a good idea if you are dealing with one off transactions as that data is a way weaker link and have more dire consequences when compromised. When it comes to money, someone will always get your info, it’s just a matter of choosing who you want to give it to.
Usually there is also online payment providers like Stripe, Adyen, Square, which process the credit card payment and thus get your data - not only the bank and creditcard provider.