The Gift of Privacy

I'd love to more about how gift cards in general work. Is it like a numbered swiss bank account where when you buy a card and the account number/password under the scratch-off on the back is your only access?

Clearly there are multiple gift card networks, but how does a company go about getting a card setup for their brand/product? And how would a business like PIA be allowed to use other brand's cards? The idea of a gift card being a deposit would make sense in this case.

I like the concept. More for the consumer than anything else. I didn't try the demo, but it would be neat to be able to post multiple cards for a transaction.

Is there mention of the cost to the merchant and or consumer? I looked, but did not see it in the expected places. Also how the merchant receives the funds would good to know. Apologies if it's in there and I did not see.

OK, thanks for the HNvertisement. That's actually nice, but how do we know that you won't roll over when $govt asks for logs?

It's silly to use a US company and expect privacy. Expect that PIA is backdoored out the wazoo and avoid them entirely.