Nordic countries point the way to cashless societies

Re:Nordic countries point the way to cashless societies by higherpurpose on Saturday January 10, 2015 @04:00PM (#8867899)

I wonder if now the governments there consider people using cash "suspicious", just like the US gov considers not having a Facebook account suspicious, or how the Spanish Court in a recent case considered encrypting your e-mail end to end as "suspicious".

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Re:Nordic countries point the way to cashless societies by silb on Saturday January 10, 2015 @05:00PM (#8868094)

This is true in Norway.

Merchants are required by law to report cash purchases over a certain amount to the tax authorities.

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Re:Nordic countries point the way to cashless societies by sliverstorm on Saturday January 10, 2015 @05:20PM (#8868154)

The same has been true for cash withdraws from the bank over a certain amount, for decades. "Suspicious" isn't quite the right word, as there are plenty of legitimate reasons. But the cost (reviewing a small number of large withdraws) vs. probability of detection is good.

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Re:Nordic countries point the way to cashless societies by waps on Saturday January 10, 2015 @08:54PM (#8868740)

The scary part is how low that amount is. It's something like 1000 euro/day and 3000 euro/week. There's also a yearly value. It's been going down over time (by a lot, used to be 5000 euro/day only when the euro was introduced).

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Re:Nordic countries point the way to cashless societies by HeyLaughingBoy on Saturday January 10, 2015 @04:55PM (#8868083)

Why do you believe "the US gov" (and which branch and agency, specifically) considers not having a Facebook account suspicious?

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