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Hiten Shah

Privacy.com - Get a new virtual card for every transaction

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Privacy.com is an innovative way to protect your personal information over the internet. Are you feeling uncomfortable using your credit card online? Privacy.com has the perfect solution - it creates a virtual card that masks your bank statements for your online payments.

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Sarthak Grover
This looks great! I'll definitely try this out. Perhaps you could include burner phone numbers along with this in the future (I want to be able to track how I get signed up for those pesky Telemarketer calls every now and then). Also, some places require a billing address to go with CC info. I am assuming there is no masking/privacy of that right now?
Boling Jiang
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@sarthakgrover Thanks! You can use any billing info you'd like actually :).
Jesse Rose
This is really smart but any plan for future support of linking credit cards vs bank account? Gotta get those points.
Daniel Greenberg
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Michael Syrrakos
This kind of reminds me of the semi-disposable card numbers PayPal used to allow users to create. Good stuff!
Noah Mittman
What's not made clear on the site at the moment is the personal liability for fraudulent charges on one of these VANs. I recently had to change card #s (oh, if this had only launched two weeks ago!) because my card had been reused by someone else on Seamless — vendor-locking would not have stopped this outright (so it seems), so dispute policies are still necessary.
Travis Sawrie
This is amazing. Excited for the day I have a physical card that does the same thing.
zach
Would be cool to see an Apple Pay integration
jamesmudgett
Just curious what fees are associated with this or how you guys are covering the cost of ach/processing/plaid auth, etc. & and if you could go into a bit of detail about your business model?
William Yang
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Illia Strikhar
This is a great great product @bolingj - everything is so simple and straightforward. And I really appreciate your smart copy like 'If the questions on this page fail to satisfy your intense thirst for knowledge, you can ask us directly at questions@privacy.com.' :) Also, thanks for the whole Watsi thing, it was a great way for me to try out your product as well as make a donation.
Boling Jiang
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Illia Strikhar
@bolingj BTW, I have a question: if I use Privacy.com to buy flight tickets, and then when checking in for a flight I'll get asked to show a card that I used to purchase the tickets should I just show my bank's card? I think they'll have your virtual card on file instead.
Boling Jiang
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@crazzzytravel So depending on your use case, you can either show the card virtual card on your phone, or you should be able to swipe any other physical card (since the check-in kiosks are usually just getting the name off your card).
Illia Strikhar
@bolingj It's usually the receptionists who ask to confirm the last 4 digits of a card. But I think unless I used a burner card showing a virtual card is a possible solution. Thanks!
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