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RFID and the end of cash?

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RFID-embedded money is likely to mean the end of anonymous transactions and with it one of the last bastions of personal anonymity.

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                  cover image Communications of the ACM
                  Communications of the ACM  Volume 49, Issue 12
                  Software product line
                  December 2006
                  105 pages
                  ISSN:0001-0782
                  EISSN:1557-7317
                  DOI:10.1145/1183236
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