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How going cashless allows Big Brother to spy on your every move: (trunc)
DailyMail.Com News ^ | By Ian Birrell In Sweden For The Mail On Sunday | Published: 19:22 EDT, 13 July 2019 | Updated: 22:36 EDT, 13 July 2019

Posted on 07/14/2019 11:03:35 PM PDT by SaveFerris

Gustaf can remember the precise date when he last used cash. 'It was October 7 last year,' he told me without hesitancy.

'I found an old note that I had forgotten about and used it to buy some sweets.'

Like many others at his university in Gothenburg, Sweden, Gustaf relies on cards and smartphones to spend money. 'None of us use cash – you just don't need it these days,' he said.

Card only: Sweden has become a cashless society so shoppers have switched to cards and smartphones

But there is one problem – a big one. The 20-year-old computer science student keeps losing his bank cards, along with others that swipe open electronic locks for his apartment, gym and lecture halls. 'I laugh about it but it is very inconvenient.'

So he plans to get a tiny microchip, scarcely bigger than a grain of rice, injected into his hand which he says will make life easier as well as being 'cool and futuristic' – following the lead of at least 4,000 other Swedes as their country hurtles into a brave new world without hard cash.

They have chips inserted under their skin – usually above the thumb – to pay for their coffees and bus and train travel, waving a hand across payment machines as if using a contactless card.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 666; bible; bigbrother; bitcoin; btc; cash; electroniccash; lastdays; money; prophecy; revelation13
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To: SaveFerris

Well that’s kinda Biblical...


21 posted on 07/15/2019 1:38:39 AM PDT by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: TheNext

“Paper money is anonymous”

Paper money is serialized. It could easily be scanned and tracked at each transaction.


22 posted on 07/15/2019 2:15:58 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2
Paper money is serialized. It could easily be scanned and tracked at each transaction.

According to a friend who recently served on a grand jury this was done in a major drug case. The perps discarded the marked money so the drug unit tracked other money from the bank to the purchaser to the perps.
23 posted on 07/15/2019 2:23:40 AM PDT by HalfIrish
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To: SaveFerris

Spy on you?

How about fleece your savings and leave you a slave to the State?


24 posted on 07/15/2019 2:26:26 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Vote for President Trump in 2020 or end up equally miserable, no rights, and eating zoo animals)
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To: SaveFerris

One word, the globalists and globalism


25 posted on 07/15/2019 2:39:59 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: SaveFerris

One word, the globalists and globalism


26 posted on 07/15/2019 2:39:59 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: cherry

“I’m sick when I think of my 401 and how its not really mine because I’ll get creamed when I take it out....”

You don’t take it all at once, you draw enough supplement your SS and you will hardly be taxed at all.


27 posted on 07/15/2019 3:00:18 AM PDT by Beagle8U (It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.)
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To: SaveFerris

“....The 20-year-old computer science student keeps losing his bank cards, along with others that swipe open electronic locks for his apartment, gym and lecture halls....”

The careless suffer. He volunteered for a life where a vicious thief could cut off his thumb instead of picking a pocket.


28 posted on 07/15/2019 3:31:18 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: SaveFerris
I miss the days of $1,000 bills and $500 bills.

President Trump should order them to be issued again.

They were stopped with an executive order by President Nixon.

An executive order should be able to re-start their reissue.

29 posted on 07/15/2019 3:35:59 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: SaveFerris

You will pay for this convenience! Now the government can monitor you, and do what it wants with your money!


30 posted on 07/15/2019 3:52:36 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: Pajamajan

We pay with cash about 95% of the time. If necessary (not enough cash on hand), we’ll use a credit card. I’ve never used a debit card — wouldn’t even know how to.

Just ditched my smart phone Android tracking device and cranked up my old Classic with BlackBerry OS. (I expect the SIM has some tracking features, but probably not as much.) No email ever on my phone.

I know you can’t fight it forever, but balking at it as long as possible is something I’ll do.

I read that in Buffalo, NY, or a suburb, you can’t pay to park without using a smart phone. How do elderly, non-tech, people deal with that? No cash.


31 posted on 07/15/2019 4:22:08 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Worry ends where faith begins.)
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To: MayflowerMadam
'I don't want to live in the Matrix': Parking in some spots requires smartphone

It's not just about the smartphone. It's about the app. Boy, doesn't this open up more cans of worms. Just another reason never to set foot in Buffalo.

32 posted on 07/15/2019 4:37:56 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds)
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To: SaveFerris
The only difference between the microchip and this

is technology

33 posted on 07/15/2019 4:45:20 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: zeestephen
Unless a person is doing something illegal or embarrassing, I have no idea why they carry cash, in the USA, anyway.

And you'll still have no idea, right up to the moment that they freeze your accounts with the flick of a switch for Wrongthink, and posting on Free Republic.

I'm not attacking you personally, BTW.

I use cash as much as possible, because I was a database administrator in a previous life. ;-)

34 posted on 07/15/2019 5:17:01 AM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We chose Trump.)
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To: SaveFerris

NYC lost power for just a few hours a couple days ago and they were freaking out. Imagine if they’d lost power for weeks and there was no “real cash” and no low skilled cashiers who understood how to count cash and give change to the few out of touch old pensioners who had cash on hand.

Muggers will have to carry hatchets to chop off hands.

If all these chipped humans have to do is wave they hands to make a purchase then there’s nothing stopping someone else using a device to scan every’s hand at the mall, the grocery store, the subway or just wandering down Main Street and become a millionaire in 10 minutes. The victims won’t know they’ve had their bank account depleted until they’re arguing with the Starbucks’ barista when they can’t pay.


35 posted on 07/15/2019 6:05:15 AM PDT by bgill
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To: cherry

Five years ago, Wells Fargo wanted my finger print to cash a relative’s little $20 check on a WF account. Finger print. $20. No bleepin’ way. That’s just one of the very long list why I will NEVER use WF.


36 posted on 07/15/2019 6:08:31 AM PDT by bgill
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To: SaveFerris

I miss the days when bank tellers knew their customers by sight. No ID needed. No hassles. It takes me up to 45 minutes to deposit a $70 check. What’s my name. Spell it. Sign this. Drivers license. How do you spell it again? What’s your account number. No, we don’t show you have an account with us. You say you’ve banked here since you were a little kid but you’re not in our records. Wait and let me get a supervisor...


37 posted on 07/15/2019 6:14:36 AM PDT by bgill
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To: bgill

My bank handles things a little differently. No matter what question I have, they say: “We have an app. Have you used the app? The app will help you. Have you downloaded the app? You should use the app.”

I’ve told several people who work at the bank that their entire job seems to be to tell customers that customers are wasting there time coming to the bank, because the people who work at the bank can’t help them.

They don’t appreciate my point of view.


38 posted on 07/15/2019 6:18:25 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: MayflowerMadam

I’ve never used an ATM. Wouldn’t know how. Wouldn’t know my password. How many in NYC the other day couldn’t use one?


39 posted on 07/15/2019 6:20:01 AM PDT by bgill
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To: MayflowerMadam

We don’t have a smart phone so guess I won’t be parking anywhere near NY.


40 posted on 07/15/2019 6:22:17 AM PDT by bgill
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