Am I really tracked when I pay in cash?
Should this really be far down the list of privacy concerns? My debit cards record every single transaction I make with them. Anybody motivated enough could find out exactly where, when, and what I buy. Seems like a pretty major privacy concern.
It means somebody has to go to the bank each day to drop off the cash and collect change.
So it's inconvenient, and an unnecessary security risk to whichever staff member is required to do that.
Compared to not accepting cash and not having to deal with any of that, then yes it's a major burden.
Taking cash? It's illegal in NYC not to... Not sure how fringe that is.
"Quite a bit" is not the same as "to my satisfaction when traveling"
How?
All a CC company would know is you like expensive lattes; your cellphone would know how long you stayed there, where you say in the joint, and how many memes you looked at before you left. And might overhear everything you say, including your order.
If you're using any sort of digital payment or points app on your phone it'll probably know your order, too.
Listen, most places should take cash, but this is silly.
In fact, if they weren’t, that would be unprofessional from the FBI.
There may be extra steps in between, but if you're tracking a transaction / relationship type which happens twice or more, you can expect that the person on the record is the person you're after or can point you at them.
But I don't know why they expect FBI to actually have it implemented. The system would have to be so widespread/common that we'd know if it existed. I mean, there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_bill_tracking but that's for hobbyists. Otherwise banks may check for duplicate numbers... but I can't find any mention of more widespread tracking.
Blockchain sleuthing had become much more commonplace since then.
If you have a public ledger, you don't need names to identify people's wallets.
Lol the simple mention, and not even favourably, of crypto in an extremely relevant context gets a DVote. It's like mentioning Joe Rogan.
