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Yeah that's starting to happen around here too. There's not a whole lot one can do to prevent it. My take is to convince a whole lot of people to swap their c
by MichaelCrawford 12y ago
Yeah that's starting to happen around here too.
There's not a whole lot one can do to prevent it.
My take is to convince a whole lot of people to swap their cards with each other. That is, you and I would each purchase a $20 card. Say you and I worked at the same company - when we arrived at work, we'd trade cards.
When I got home, I'd trade my card with my neighbor.
That would enable The Man to cut down on his cash handling expenses, which really are quite significant when you handle quite a lot of coin and currency. But it would make a total rat's nest of any attempt to track transit riders by tracking our payment cards.
- 13 12y agoI was very amused to realise that it was actually cheaper for me to buy a RFID ticket, run it into the debt limit of $1 and then dispose of it at the end of the trip. Talking to the station staff about it they acknowledged that they didn't like it but that it was perfectly within the law to continue doing so because after all it was still a valid ticket. There's probably room for doing a mix network in places where this loophole isn't possible though, even just a scheme when you see another person adding funds to a zero balance card and it becoming custom to swap your empty one for theirs would do the trick for privacy.
- notlisted 12y agoNot to change the topic, but I've been thinking about doing the exact same thing with advertising tracking codes (e.g. DoubleClick). CookieSwappers of the World Unite.
- kenbellows 12y agoThat could result in some fascinating ad combinations. It could really help in breaking the filter bubbles around the web too.