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Privacy nightmare and authoritarian nightmare. Stick with cash options. Cash as legal tender needs to be a law everywhere.
by wait_a_minute 3y ago
Privacy nightmare and authoritarian nightmare. Stick with cash options. Cash as legal tender needs to be a law everywhere.
- wahnfrieden 3y agoSame thing going on with public transit replacing tickets/passes with credit card scanner entry
- lapinot 3y agoThis! This is so infuriating. Now i guess most major city have some poorly secured db that contains all the time/place points where every user of mass transit has checked in/out. I'm not exactly sure what is the strong push for this, is it lobbying by vendors to get access to this data? In any case most of the time it's marketed as somehow "green" (because you understand, replacing paper with microelectronics is really the way to go).
- wahnfrieden 3y agoIt's govt surveillance tech. Now riders are more accurately and easily traced to individual citizens/residents/visitors.
- eastbound 3y agoThere are only 20bn Euro banknotes. Fits snuggly in a Postgres database. Most of the times, they go straight from the ATM to the consumer to the baker to the bank in one day. Any other loop is (correction: can be) traced and reported. You don’t have privacy with banknotes. Try coins.
- svara 3y agoHow can you trace a loop unless it involves someone reading and reporting the serial number? Do you have some more information to read about how paper money flows are traced?
- eastbound 3y agoThat’s true, I made a claim I shouldn’t have, I have no proof that banks report serial numbers to any central entity. I should have rather claimed that it is theoretically feasible.