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[โ€“] testaccount372920@piefed.zip 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Only if all that information is collected and stored. Digital finance systems tend to track every transaction and keep a record of them (because of legal requirements among other reasons). With cash in an envelope a government can't check all the info you suggested a year after the payment has happened, perhaps not even after a few days.

[โ€“] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

True. I'm thinking of what they can collect after they've already decided to target you.