Death of privacy

Manhattan: Your editorial “Good money” (Dec. 5) misses the most important point about a “cashless” society. Going over to digital forms of buying and selling completely will produce a society with no privacy. Government and private entities will have complete access to records of everything one does involving payment. Bravo to the New Jersey Legislature for moving to require cash to be accepted. Thus comes a totalitarian state with no secrets, no private life. Already, some countries such as Sweden and China may be heading in that direction. It is very dangerous. Paul Silverstone