Re:Swedes rebelling against a cashless society (2018)
by PeterStuer on Friday March 06, 2020 @04:16PM
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It is terrible, but it will not die off.
There has been incredible lobbying for this. This is the ultimate capitalist's wet dream: making a profit on every transaction. The privacy angle is tangential, just collateral in the land-grab, just one more way to squeeze the last drop of profit out of everything you do.
Besides, the sharing of the data with 'authorities' was the lube that pushed these systems in. Gotta catch them terrorists, right. No no no, it might seem like a grandparent giving $50 dollar to her grandson on his birthday, but I'm telling ya'll, terrorism.
There has been incredible lobbying for this. This is the ultimate capitalist's wet dream: making a profit on every transaction. The privacy angle is tangential, just collateral in the land-grab, just one more way to squeeze the last drop of profit out of everything you do.
Besides, the sharing of the data with 'authorities' was the lube that pushed these systems in. Gotta catch them terrorists, right. No no no, it might seem like a grandparent giving $50 dollar to her grandson on his birthday, but I'm telling ya'll, terrorism.