The purchase of the prepaid card can be tracked just as getting cash from a cash machine can be tracked. But that&#x27;s where the track ends. If the prepaid card is anonymous, it can be passed on to someone else as payment for instance.<p>Whether we have anonymous electronic payments is not a technology issue. It&#x27;s a political question. The danger is that governments could use the demise of cash to ban anonymous payments altogether. I&#x27;m just saying that the loss of anonymity is not an automatic consequence of electronic payments.