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What is it?
Banks can track each banknotes serial number when you receive them from the ATM and when they are returned from the store you spent them at. This data could then be used to create a complete profile of your spending habits.
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Bill-tracking-Increasing-cash-tracking-worries-data-protectionists-10481696.html
Doesn't work very well if you buy something directly from someone. Or if your cash is given out as change. Seems like it would make a wildly inaccurate profile.
ATMs give out $20 bills. In order to get one back as change you'd have to pay with a bill larger than $20. I don't remember the last time I carried something larger than a 20.
They give out $100's if you aren't a poor people.
But seriously though. A lot of ATM's will do 100's, anymore.
Bank ATMs can give out any denomination.
Not in Canada. It sucks.
Well I've never seen those. Must be new or Desjardins doesn't have them.
That’s a credit union, not a bank. Just like 7-11 atms won’t have them either, it’s only bank atms at the branch’s.