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Is this the end for the magnetic stripe?

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Summary
Nutrition label

76% Informative

Magstripe hotel key cards are rare these days , increasingly superseded by contactless cards.

From this year onwards Mastercard will not require banks to put a magnetic stripe on debit and credit cards.

For ticketing, new technologies including printable barcodes are more environmentally friendly and potentially more convenient.

Magstripe technology is extremely well established, but it is inevitable it will gradually disappear.

US banks are finally switching to chip and PIN cards, the market for magstripe is dwindling.

Newer technologies may also be more complex - and therefore exploitable by criminals using novel methods.

VR Score

75

Informative language

72

Neutral language

62

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

49

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

medium-lived

Source diversity

1

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