ECB claims digital euro will offer 'maximum level of privacy' amid surveillance fears
Central bank officials say the Eurosystem will be structurally unable to link users to purchases, but civil society groups remain skeptical.
Source: CoinDesk
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DW NOTE
The ECB promises it cannot link users to purchases while maintaining sole control over the system's architecture. That's not privacy—that's asking citizens to trust the institution that bought €5 trillion in government bonds over the past decade to remain structurally incapable of surveillance once the digital infrastructure is deployed. Civil liberties are not preserved through promises; they're preserved through technical impossibility.