I’m not saying that privacy-preserving cryptography is something that works for this particular instance.

Yeah. Many Easy cards that are tied to people, there are. I always use one that’s not tied to me. The government still knows that this card got on the bus here and got off the bus there. In a sense, if possible, all this should be something where the ...

That is something that in a sense, the city government shouldn’t be asking about, especially if you are using a ID-tied Metro card, like many people are using.

The central government and the city governments are asking sometimes, by my lights, too much information. For example, just one thing that I consider to be way too much information is when you are always on a city bus. You have to click in when you get on. You have ...

I have to confess that I’m not as acutely privacy aware as my friends who are not from Taiwan, even though I’m American, too. [laughs] On the other hand, one would imagine that some kind of privacy-preserving access to many government services should be possible.