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Author: Christian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 18:25:20 +0100
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diff --git a/2022-privacy/privacy.tex b/2022-privacy/privacy.tex
@@ -270,22 +270,21 @@ Tightly coupling them is thus probably the worst idea to entertain in the design
space for CBDCs but is exactly what is proposed.
Citizens themselves are well aware of this aspect and it consequently would
-have a significant impact on acceptance of a CDBC:
-The Swiss population recently rejected a proposal for a national
-eID~\cite{eid2021}, and the newly elected German government is promising a
-reversal of ubiquitous data retention (without cause)~\cite{koalitionsvertrag2021}.
-The European Parliament has members
-proposing to ban the use of facial recognition in public
+have a significant impact on acceptance of a CDBC: The Swiss population
+recently rejected a proposal for a national eID~\cite{eid2021}, and the newly
+elected German government is promising a reversal of ubiquitous data retention
+(without cause)~\cite{koalitionsvertrag2021}. The European Parliament has
+members proposing to ban the use of facial recognition in public
spaces~\cite{euai2021}. The ECB's proposal seemingly ignores the popular
rejection of treating every citizen as a criminal suspect by doubling down.
-Payment data is already typically retained for 6 or more years.~\cite{fca}
-The missing link in the ECB proposal that would
-reveal the dystopic reality they would invoke would be a statement that facial
-recognition could be used to conveniently establish the payer's identity --- or
-``pay with your smile'', as contemporary account-based digital payment
-offerings already put it. If CBDC payment data is strongly coupled with our
-identities, those who dislike living in a panopticon could only hope for such a
-CBDC to be rarely used.
+The missing link in the ECB proposal that would reveal the dystopic reality
+they would invoke would be a statement that facial recognition could be used
+to conveniently establish the payer's identity --- or ``pay with your smile'',
+as contemporary account-based digital payment offerings already put it. If
+CBDC payment data, which like other payment data can be expected to be
+retained for 6 or more years~\cite{fca}, were to be strongly coupled with our
+identities, those who dislike living in a panopticon could only hope for such
+a CBDC to be rarely used.
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