MasterCard tries to best EZ-Pass with PayPass

This could be big trouble for EZ-Pass - since they're billing my credit card anyways. If PayPass became an option why wouldn't I cut out the middle man?

Because the middleman adds a layer of security, you don't want to be broadcasting your credit card information with Wi-Fi or Bluetooth where any hacker hiding behind the tollbooth can receive it. Same problem has happened with wireless keep it in you pocket car "keys". Transponders just index your account and then deduct from your balance, actual transmissions of charges to your credit card are minimized and done over more secure networks.

I hear you but I guess I'm just not that concerned. I've had Mobil's Speed-pass which is tied directly to my CC for years and the same argument was presented then about security. I would hope just like Speed-Pass its a joined account that charges my CC on a daily balance - so I'm not necessarily broadcasting my CC number to the whole world. I guess we'll see....

I can think of several problems and one benefit.

benefit: EZPass has an annual charge which the credit card does not.

Problems: (1) If this is a card that you carry, rather than a box installed in your car, several passengers in the car may have similar cards in their wallet. Does this result in all being charged the toll?

(2) If this card can be read by passing under or near a toll structure, it can also be read by hackers on the side of the road or at any other location near where the carrier walks or rides. EZPass charges go only to an official agency. The charges list the tolled road or crossing. The paypass data could be used to charge anything to any retail entitity.