Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama recently announced an ambitious plan: He wants to make Albania the world's first cashless society before the decade is out.
Don’t worry, all your cash transactions are traced as well. Banks just record the serial numbers when you use the ATM and once again when the store returns the cash to the bank. Source(de)
Wow, wtf! I would not expect that degree of mass surveillance to be economically viable. And so overtly stark in the face of the GDPR. In principle, we should be able to make a GDPR access request to the central bank to ask them where we shop with cash and which ATMs we used.
Don’t worry, all your cash transactions are traced as well. Banks just record the serial numbers when you use the ATM and once again when the store returns the cash to the bank. Source(de)
Wow, wtf! I would not expect that degree of mass surveillance to be economically viable. And so overtly stark in the face of the GDPR. In principle, we should be able to make a GDPR access request to the central bank to ask them where we shop with cash and which ATMs we used.