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   Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Monday, 21-Aug-2023 11:35:01 JST Richard Stallman

   [01/02 Resistance to pressure in the UK to use surveilled digital payments is found in various groups, including young people living on limited incomes and foreign visitors, as well as the usually cited group (old people who find digital technology confusing): https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/aug/14/fears-uks-cashless-society-will-leave-more-than-just-the-vulnerable-behind Alas, the article doesn't mention the group I belong to: people who value privacy and understand that the way to prevent personal data from being misused by companies is not to allow companies to collect that...

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     Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Monday, 21-Aug-2023 11:35:09 JST Richard Stallman

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     [02/02] ...data. The UK needs a political campaigning group to demand laws requiring that certain important kinds of stores accept cash. Last time I had a connection in Heathrow Airport, I wanted to buy a snack from a store which accepted only tracked payments. Since that store would not accept my money, I bought something else from another store.

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     Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 12:35:50 JST Richard Stallman

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     • bjb :devuannew: :emacs:

     @bjb How about starting an organzation to campaign for the right to pay cash anonymously? Then you can try to recruit from various groups in which some people want to pay cash.

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     bjb :devuannew: :emacs: (bjb@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 12:35:52 JST bjb :devuannew: :emacs:

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     @rms They just lump us in with the technologically challenged. Maybe hoping we'll break down and 'prove' we aren't tech challenged by doing their favoured behaviour.

     I'm with you, I take my business elsewhere.

     But they don't seem to care, and they are successfully brainwashing the younger ones that cash etc is old and less desirable, and that electronic transactions on phones is "safe".