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  Mondex® | Frequently Asked Questions | MasterCard®
Mondex is a payment system, based on smart card technology, which offers an alternative to paying cash for goods and services.
A Mondex wallet is a pocket-sized device with one or two card readers and its own electronic purse, a keyboard, and a screen.
Mondex is an alternative to cash transactions because of its benefits for consumers and retailers.
www.mondex.com /faq.html   (909 words)

  
  Urban Legends Reference Pages: Politics (Mondex)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Mondex is planning to replace money with biochips embedded in people's heads and hands.
Mondex has nothing to do with implanting chips into people, nor are biochips inserted into heads or hands.
Once again, Mondex is not a biochip technology — it is a brand of smart card technology (which uses chips produced by other companies), and the Mondex card itself was introduced at least ten years ago.
www.snopes.com /politics/business/mondex.asp   (1539 words)

  
 Mondex International: Reengineering Money
Mondex had initially proven to be more popular with women than expected, and was particularly appealing to people who used debit or credit cards.
Mondex had used its relationship with the local football club and various public gatherings to promote the scheme to a wider segment of the Swindon populace.
Mondex, by contrast, had a global specification ensuring that the technologies employed in trials were compatible and interoperable.
projects.bus.lsu.edu /cases/mondex/mondex.html   (7345 words)

  
 Roger Clarke's Mondex Report of Feb '96
Mondex staff are candid in their assessment that awareness and concerns about privacy aspects of value-card schemes are much higher and better-informed in Australia than in any other marketplace with which they are currently engaged.
Mondex International advised that the initial version of the web-pages was less carefully phrased than other documents: the core precept was 'private', whereas the term 'anonymous' was used in the web-pages.
Mondex may be a big winner if such a movement occurs, provided that it is in fact, and remains, a pseudonymous scheme, and consolidation of the transaction trail, and inter-relationship between the data and the index remain most unusual occurrences and do not become routinised.
www.anu.edu.au /people/Roger.Clarke/EC/Mondex.html   (8908 words)

  
 Privacy International - Mondex Complaint Letter
In defence of its tactics, Mondex might well argue that the cards are transferable, and thus the audit trail cannot technically link a transaction to an identified individual in, say, the way a credit card could (the credit card requires a signature).
I believe Mondex has conducted research which shows that almost one hundred per cent of transactions are conducted by the owner of the card.
Mondex must either cease describing their product as anonymous and cash like, or it must remove all transaction recording machinery at point of sale.
www.privacy.org /pi/activities/mondex/complaint.html   (1299 words)

  
 Mondex electronic cash - An Online Payment Service
Mondex electronic cash works in the same way as cash, which means merchants can transact using digital channels like the Internet, mobile phones and digital television with less risk of fraud.
Mondex operates on a smart card and is accessible to everyone, including the youth market and those without bank accounts.
Mondex enables merchants to target e-commerce markets that are not adequately serviced by traditional payment methods e.g.
www.stylusinc.com /WebEnable/Sales/mondex.php   (690 words)

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