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Europe is bracing itself for a big shake-up in how we pay for things online, which will have significant consequences for businesses across the region. Similar to how GDPR hugely impacted how millions of organizations handle personal data when it was enforced last year, Strong Customer Authentication (or SCA) will have profound implications for how businesses handle online transactions and how we pay for things in our everyday lives when it is enforced on September 14.
SCA will require an extra layer of authentication for online payments. Where a card number and address once sufficed, customers will now be required to include at least two of the following three factors to do anything as simple as order a taxi or pay for a music streaming service. Something they know (like a password or PIN), something they own (like a token or smartphone), and something they are (like a fingerprint or biometric facial features).
https://thenextweb.com/podium/2019/05/10/your-business-passed-the-gdpr-challenge-but-sca-is-next/
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bradley13 on Tuesday May 14 2019, @11:19AM
Transaction security is a good thing. If you want anonymity, that's a different issue. However, non-anonymous online transactions need reasonable security. The good old days of the number on a credit card being sufficient? That just cannot work, because those numbers are too easily compromised.
If you want anonymous transactions online, you will have to find a seller who accepts Monero, or some other cryptocurrency that supports anonymity. For normal transactions.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.