Enable a digital students ID and digital Mensa Payment via smartphone

[MichaelWhi]

... With some partners and The STWPB?

Talk to @MichaelWhi for more Info about the idea :)

[ironjan]

It's a nice idea to pay my mensa food with my smartphone. Unfortunately I don't think the STW is ready for that - at least regarding privacy. (0)

Also they don't use an open system for payments - and we all know how long it took to get a half-open access to menu plans.

(0) Every transaction you make, every food ever bought (with all related data like weight) is saved. Forever. AFAIK this is never mentioned on any of the STW's pages. See https://fsmi.uni-paderborn.de/fileadmin/matik/matik_66.pdf p. 24

[MichaelWhi]

Interesting article! This was just an idea and not a current project, no fear ;)
But I think with a solution based on optical recognition and/or bluetooth le privacy issues are basically the same - the problem ain't a unique ID but the STWPB saving all transactions on their servers.