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Just a reminder, tonight, BBC 2 at 8, Jacques Peretti covers how internet transactions are the new gold rush. Be careful of those payment details!
Once again, an excellent and worrying documentary, this one about how we have all enabled ourselves to be made of money. You know the small print that tells you your details will be passed on to other companies? Billions of dollars are being made out of your details, and you're not seeing a penny. Lots of fascinating bits, like how buying without cash actually makes you spend more because psychologically it's more agreeable. It started in Kenya, and now Apple, Google, Facebook, all those online giants, basically have a licence to print money. Except they don't print money, it's all in the ether. Their ether.