You're being pedantic. You know I'm using the term "listening device" figuratively. I'm explaining why people refer to it as "spyware". There's nothing ideological about that.
>>But in all seriousness, I imagine you're talking about the auditability aspect of GNU Taler. GNU Taler only allows auditing of people receiving money
So Taler is designed to not provide people with privacy of how much they receive. You can try to justify it as much as you want, but it doesn't change the fact that its privacy is deliberately handicapped to allow government surveillance.
>>Bitcoin (which I assume you are a proponent of)
Bitcoin has terrible privacy. There are efforts to provide real privacy in digital/crypto currency. Taler is not one of them. In fact, limiting the financial privacy people have is one of its design goals.
>>But in all seriousness, I imagine you're talking about the auditability aspect of GNU Taler. GNU Taler only allows auditing of people receiving money
So Taler is designed to not provide people with privacy of how much they receive. You can try to justify it as much as you want, but it doesn't change the fact that its privacy is deliberately handicapped to allow government surveillance.
>>Bitcoin (which I assume you are a proponent of)
Bitcoin has terrible privacy. There are efforts to provide real privacy in digital/crypto currency. Taler is not one of them. In fact, limiting the financial privacy people have is one of its design goals.