I find it annoying that we have these endless debates in the US where it's assumed that if there's some magnitude it of course must be more than epsilon.
I would be interested in if anyone can give a example where the friction increases in such a way as a person would experience an actual difference, or how this would actually make cash easier.
Otherwise this sounds to me like the endless silly arguments against a national id card by people. (State ID cards that then go into a federal database are no more private but come with annoying downsides like ID.me)
I wrote a comment on another thread today about this wrt surveillance. Reduced friction in surveillance definitely is something to be feared, as the evidence is that if the government/police/alphabet agencies can use a power (literally, not necessarily legally), they will. The only thing holding them back in the pre-digital age was the high cost of physical surveillance and even data storage, when "files" were things you held. The difference in quantity of possible surveillance has become a difference in quality, where it's just "common sense" that the government can easily pull your movements from cell tower records, and that they'll do so regardless of whether they're allowed to (or say "terrorism!" allows them to)
I would be interested in if anyone can give a example where the friction increases in such a way as a person would experience an actual difference, or how this would actually make cash easier.
Otherwise this sounds to me like the endless silly arguments against a national id card by people. (State ID cards that then go into a federal database are no more private but come with annoying downsides like ID.me)