Re:Google starts tracking what people buy in physical stores
by 0x45696e6172 on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @06:12AM
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How anonymous is cash really? All money bills have serial numbers that could automatically be correlated with ATMs and your time/location data.
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Re:Google starts tracking what people buy in physical stores
by kalmi10 on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @06:22AM
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I read an article about a year ago that about 50% of China's ATM had this serial number recording capability, and that at least some compuer-connected cash counters had it too. I was highly sceptical, but then I found a cash counter that had this capability listed on its specifications page.
I don't have time right now to find it again, but they are out there and it's already being done at some places. Okay, maybe not correlated, but recorded for sure.