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
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @11:31PM
Of course, corporations will buy PCs so they can create apps. But you, the consumer, are supposed to just have a mobile device for consuming content, not creating it.
Look at Apple, how they restrict who and what can be published in their store, and how they charge people to even be able to make apps for their iDevices. And their computers are becoming more and more like expensive dongles for iDevice app development rather than a platform anyone takes seriously anymore.