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Payment privacy (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by jobbies@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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What are the options for increased privacy in how you pay for things where you live?

Cash is the obvious answer, but what about buying stuff online?

UK here. Thinking of ditching cards/contactless for good old cash. No idea about online payments - not doing anything illegal so might persevere with cards for now. Zero experience with crypto.

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[–] sonalder@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You spend that bill at a shop which brings them to the bank at the end of the day where the serial is collected.

Have you ever been on a cash based society, banknotes don't do bank - user - seller - bank route, sometimes it might happen okay but it's not the norm, these are global, not precise tracking.

This can be crosscorrelated with information from a dozen other sources. That infomation will practically never be used to you advantage.

I agree on this, but cash have still stronger anonymity and privacy than most electronic payment methods. That's why they want cash to disapear in favor of CBDCs and banking cards. That's also why corrupted european deputee have big bags of cash at home lol.