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posted by Fnord666 on Friday July 21 2017, @08:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the black-market dept.

With many countries already heading towards cashless transactions, we are facing some hard decisions. These decisions will be made whether we ignore them or not, so to have a say it is essential to be active. These are not new issues, but they are quickly approaching. Dominic Frisby at The Guardian is the latest to take up some of the pertinent questions around the move to a cashless society.

Poor people and small businesses rely on cash. A contactless system will likely entrench poverty and pave the way for terrifying levels of surveillance.

Source: Why we should fear a cashless world


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by tibman on Friday July 21 2017, @08:42PM (6 children)

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 21 2017, @08:42PM (#542557)

    Could use bitcoin maybe?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @10:00PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @10:00PM (#542594)

    You're replying to what is most likely a troll who is just SO MAD about people modding their comments down.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @10:23PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @10:23PM (#542601)

      Every day I hope to wake up in a world without SoylentNews and every day it's the same nightmare instead.

      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @10:35PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @10:35PM (#542609)

        I mean really, who uses a site they hate? Who does that?

        Oh, trolls apparently, cause they get off on misery.

        • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Saturday July 22 2017, @05:30PM

          by Pino P (4721) on Saturday July 22 2017, @05:30PM (#542971) Journal

          I mean really, who uses a site they hate?

          Citizens in a taxing jurisdiction, customers of a utility, students at a school, sellers on a dominant online store, developers on a dominant computing platform, etc.

          I concede that SN is none of the above.

      • (Score: 2, Funny) by khallow on Friday July 21 2017, @11:15PM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 21 2017, @11:15PM (#542623) Journal

        Every day I hope to wake up in a world without SoylentNews and every day it's the same nightmare instead.

        I hate to see you sad. Just Google "block url" with the name of the browser you use and you'll quickly find how to block soylentnews.org so that it never dirties your computer screen ever again. You can also blacklist the domain name in your hosts file so that all the browsers you use on a computer will never go to SN ever again.

        Just think of it. A little man-upping and 15-30 minutes of effort. Then the nightmare goes away for good.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @12:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @12:35AM (#542658)

    Bitcoin is not private, but Monero [reddit.com] may be.