Hm. There's a chance that your contactless card sends a different token that isn't your credit card number when you pay that way. I'm not sure. If so, you're ri

Hm. There's a chance that your contactless card sends a different token that isn't your credit card number when you pay that way. I'm not sure. If so, you're right that it's basically the same level of security. However, the new way lets you do the same thing in software without giving all your transactions to Google, which is nice. We'll be able to do online payments that are as secure and private as NFC, which we can't today.