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Re:In Germany, the use of cash has become a proxy for concer... by wolfgke on Friday May 25, 2018 @10:38AM (#17154113)
> I only have anecdotal evidence (but to be fair I didn't see any evidence in the article either that this cash-focus in Germany is really based on privacy/trust issues) but I have never heard anyone use cash for privacy/trust reasons.

I know quite some in Germany (and see myself among them). "Ironically" I observe that the people who are most vocally privacy-minded (also concerning cash) - at least in my cicrcle - often have studied computer science (or a related subject) or are at least very interested in computer science topics, while the people who argue very vocally that paying via credit card/NFC/... is so much more convenient are not the kind of people who are very interested in computer science topics.

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Re:In Germany, the use of cash has become a proxy for concer... by freeflight on Friday May 25, 2018 @11:03AM (#17154364)
> while the people who argue very vocally that paying via credit card/NFC/... is so much more convenient are not the kind of people that is very interested in computer science topics.

They are usually also among those folks who don't think anybody would be interested in their data along the lines of "What are they even gonna do with it? Why should I care" firmly belonging to the "Nothing to hide, so I got nothing to fear" camp.

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