The purchase of the prepaid card can be tracked just as getting cash from a cash machine can be tracked. But that's where the track ends. If the prepaid card is

The purchase of the prepaid card can be tracked just as getting cash from a cash machine can be tracked. But that's where the track ends. If the prepaid card is anonymous, it can be passed on to someone else as payment for instance. Whether we have anonymous electronic payments is not a technology issue. It's a political question. The danger is that governments could use the demise of cash to ban anonymous payments altogether. I'm just saying that the loss of anonymity is not an automatic consequence of electronic payments.