Bloomberg: How Sweden’s push to go cashless has left consumers and the country vulnerable to online fraud; value of fraudulent transactions has doubled since 2021  —  Sweden has led the way in Europe in going cashless, but fast and easy digital commerce have left consumers and the state vulnerable to fraud.

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    5 months ago

    when new technologies roll out to replace old methods of doing things, governments should work harder on tech literacy surrounding these new solutions.

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      5 months ago

      Whenever we introduce new stuff like this we limit the experiment to youngsters and keep around the old reliable as a failsafe.

      All it takes for any software to fail is pulling the plug.