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Monday, October 27, 2014
Most of the talk about NFC inside the iphone 6 and iphone 6 Plus has centered around Apple Pay, the iphone maker's mobile payments service, but NFC has other uses, too. Android handsets typically use NFC for proximity-based wireless sharing and now  The Information is reporting  that Apple is considering adding more NFC-based features to the new iPhones, stuff like enabling secure access to buildings and transit fare systems. According to the article, Apple engineers met with representatives for technology providers like HID Global and Cubic to discuss expanding NFC in the iphone 6 and iphone 6 Plus to new uses such as replacing a public transit card or a secure building access keycard. Reporter Amir Efrati has learned that the new iPhones could effectively replace the NFC-based Clipper card used for California's Bay Are Transit System. Clipper cards could be easily uploaded into an iphone 6 or iphone 6 Plus and the handset's Secure Element could be used to store related information. As a result, users could be allowed to tap their phones at the BART turnstiles in order to "transmit the information to the card reader using the iphone's NFC chip". The NFC chip in the handset taps the Secure Element to store device identification number and tokens used for mobile payments. This data is stored in an encrypted form, walled off from apps and the rest of the system and never gets synced to Apple's servers. It's unclear whether Apple mig ...

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