Re:In Germany, the use of cash has become a proxy for concer...
by hycaria on Friday May 25, 2018 @01:54PM
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Neither one does matter to me actually. I already expressed similar views before. It's cool to have music suggestions based on what I like and not what's popular overall. I'm fine with my city's transit department optimizing stuff for everyone, and me being one of hundred of thousands of users. I don't matter, individuals overall don't matter, and there's a significant gain from it for the community. I don't know what is so wrong with it and why people are so offended that some tech literate people don't care.
Re:In Germany, the use of cash has become a proxy for concer...
by vekker on Saturday May 26, 2018 @12:40PM
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In other words, you are one of those people who uses the "I have nothing to hide" argument in favor of rampant personal data collection.
Re:In Germany, the use of cash has become a proxy for concer...
by hycaria on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @12:27PM
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Yes, I have nothing that I, at some point, disclosed to a service or company to hide. Show me that it's implacably wrong and that it brings a global deficit for everyone and society overall then.
Re:In Germany, the use of cash has become a proxy for concer...
by def_true_false on Friday May 25, 2018 @08:19PM
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Fare evasion and occasionally paying for the single journey ticket might be an option, depending on your location. I know of at least a few places where it won't cost much more than a card over the long run.
Oh, so the exact same reason Facebook tracks you. Except, of course, that it's relatively easy to not use Facebook, but it's a real, substantial cost to not use public transport in your city (or only using single journey cash tickets).