With certain states having credit card Merchant category codes (MCC) becoming law, and therefore having the ability to track firearm and related purchases; does anyone use a privacy credit card to hide their identity? Does it indeed keep you anonymous? I’m guessing an MCC for a family planning center would be an invasion of privacy.

You can't just use a reloadable credit card? They sell those at Walmart. Don't they?

It's not that MCCs are new, they have existed for quite some time. It's just that new ones have been created specifically to breakout/identify/target/punish those doing business and/or purchasing in those specific categories (i.e. firearms) that are deemed objectionable by the leftists in charge.

If you have an iPhone, Apples Cash Card has a virtual number and has to be reloaded from a bank account.
From what I have read, it is a privacy card. The only caveat is that you don’t have a physical card. You’re limited to using it for online payments, and anywhere that takes Apple Pay.

All such "End to End" transactions contain the source of the funds, and include everything.

Your bank acount is one "End", and the merchant is the other "End".

If you use a virtual "one time CC", it is sourced from your bank account (and that info is recorded by the financial institution and "card issuer" as it is tied to your physical CC). So it is no different "logical process" than if you simply used your physical CC for the transaction.

You are not anonymous using a "reloadable card", Payment services like Venmo, Zell, Paypal etc. All are tied to "physical" account.

Gift Cards, are more difficult, but if any alphabet agencies wanted to, they could "get back to you", as they would first see other "breadcrumbs" that lead them to wanting to discover all activity.

Example.

For whatever reason, you are being investigated, all the information already easily toed to you and once a case is sufficient, looking into methods of transactions would be looked into, and if a purchase were discovered that you made, and the merchant's records reviewed, the "Gift Card" number would return that it was a Gift Card.

Tracking the origin of the Point of Sale of the gift card may (depending on how it was purchased) reveal that is can be tied to you, even circumstantially, and even though that piece is not enough to "tie to you 100%", it will go towards "coloring" you, and that is simply a tool of leverage against you.

Believing your actions/behaviors are "un-seen" is the first step of becoming seen.

You blinked...

We exist in an Algebraic reality.

Well then, cash it is.