Austria's conservative Chancellor Karl Nehammer wants the right to use cash enshrined in the constitution, he told Austrian media in remarks published on Friday (4 August), an idea the far-right Freedom Party has been pushing for years.

Austria’s conservative Chancellor Karl Nehammer wants the right to use cash enshrined in the constitution, he told Austrian media in remarks published on Friday (4 August), an idea the far-right Freedom Party has been pushing for years.

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      The type of argument you’re making is this: “Climate change is happening anyway, let’s build more coal plants!” I don’t really agree with the type of argument in general.

      Corporate surveillance that can be turned into surveillance for the state at a whim is destructive to democracy and makes society worse.

      Also, facial recognition is much slower and much less precise and generates much more data/noise than just collecting info from a card. There are quite a few practical hurdles here.