Seriously, anonymity was never expected out of bitcoins; more so, it was expected to be able to track them. If you know who paid who, you can discover if it was a legal payment or not.
Also, people worried about privacy: your payments are already known, shared, put into predictive software... you're not losing any privacy by using bitcoin. Licit use of money is more important than supposedly breaching 'rights' that have already been breached by a different source.
And to the reporter / poster: please research what you're sharing. News are a very dangerous thing if they're miscommunicated or misused.
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Seriously, anonymity was never expected out of bitcoins; more so, it was expected to be able to track them. If you know who paid who, you can discover if it was a legal payment or not. Also, people worried about privacy: your payments are already known, shared, put into predictive software... you're not losing any privacy by using bitcoin. Licit use of money is more important than supposedly breaching 'rights' that have already been breached by a different source. And to the reporter / poster: please research what you're sharing. News are a very dangerous thing if they're miscommunicated or misused.