PayPass Hopes To Score With Touchless Credit Cards

Dan Richman writes for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer about the deployment of more than 400 terminals supporting MasterCard's PayPass contactless technology at Seattle's Qwest Field.

If it seems like yet another newfangled way to risk high-tech theft, the experts say don't worry. Fans were taking no financial risk by beaming their account information through a few inches of air, rather than swiping a card conventionally or handing it to a clerk. At most, they said, thieves determined and sophisticated enough to intercept the wireless transmissions might be able to discover a cardholder's name.