On: Sweden’s Push to Get Rid of Cash Has Some Saying, ...

[mariefred]

I understand anonymity from my wife, but do credit card companies really sell your data? and Swish which is operated by the banks ?

[fwsgonzo → mariefred]

Anyone not selling your data is just sitting on money-making opportunities for no reason. It would be insane.

First thing that popped up: https://www.businessinsider.com/credit-cards-sell-purchase-d...

So, we know they sell anonymized data. We don't know if its easily de-anonymizable because that takes some studying, and we don't know what else they are selling they don't tell you about.

[michaelt → fwsgonzo]

Right, but is it known they sell the data in the EU?

[krageon → michaelt]

It would be breathtakingly naive to think this is not done.

[michaelt → krageon]

But is there _evidence_ ? The sort of evidence that could form the basis of a GDPR complaint?

[cat199 → mariefred]

Why does a third party need to know in the first place, whether or not they sell the information or not?

It's not that I prefer cash, it's that I don't see involving 100s or even 1000s of third parties in all of my transactions as an 'improvement'.

[detaro → mariefred]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-30/google-an... is an example