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[QUESTION] Privacy and the digital euro (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Asudox@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Some talk about the privacy of the digital euro has been made. Some people said that your transactions are going to be tracked. Should an european worry about it? Would GNU Taler be a possible solution?

And it's not like the digital euro is some dream, it will become reality soon.

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[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think deprecating physical cash must be highly illegal because everyone has the right not to own a phone.

[–] Korkki@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

it's more like the bits are representing physical cash, but in the future the physical cash will represent the bits. Most money is digital even now and even the physical cash is mostly just paper money, not precious metals, not even the coins probably have their worth in metals, so it makes sense.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Of course money is not a real valuable resource but I will fight for the right of not owning digital devices. Forcing it makes no good sense to me and it will pronounce the death of privacy as a word. They will find some proprietary system like Play Integrity (but worse) to lock it in for "security".