Apple Card to Lose Magnetic Stripe By 2029

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By Hartley CharltonAug 17, 2021, 10:16 am107 pts
Mastercard has today announced that its cards will no longer be issued with the magnetic stripe by 2029, which will presumably include Apple Card. The magnetic stripe was an early 1960s technology that allowed card information to be encoded onto magnetic tape that is laminated to the back of a card, paving the…

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