Originally Posted by
kebosabi
I profoundly remain optimistic that contactless would take off. It is practically the norm elsewhere outside the US, there are no problems with them, so any talk about "hackers stealing info from a mile away" or concerns like the photos on the wiki, are at least to me, akin to being too paranoid with tin-foil hat conspiracies.
What do you define as norm elsewhere outside the US? I have found contactless to be rare in Europe and non-existent in much of Latin America and Africa. I don't recall much contactless if any in Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, or much of China either.