They usually have to be ‘activated’ first, which gives card vendors the opportunity to collect your information before allowing purchases. This isnt common practice yet, but I’d bet that’s coming. Even if they don’t collect your pre-activation info, the date, time and place of purchase are recorded and attached to the card. It wouldn’t be a stretch for law enforcement to request CC/security video from the merchant at the date and time of purchase. So I don’t think they offer as much privacy as cash unfortunately.

Awesome work. Stuff like this is what makes selfhosted the best community on lemmy!

My god this video is 14 years old and still just as relevant. I love the bit at the end

“Next week we’ll be talking about BodyDoo, the popular new device that links with your iPhone to post all of your bodily functions right to facebook”