New Money, New Data: Central Bank Digital Currency, Financial Privacy, and Democratic Concerns

Central Bank Digital Currency is an emerging financial technology that offers great promise, but at the constant risk of losing our financial privacy, autonomy and freedom. Like many digital technologies, CBDC shares similarities with the low-tech system it might replace and has many promising aspects and unexpected risks. Take a deep dive into this emerging financial technology, the new kind of data involved, the privacy risks it poses, and what’s needed to preserve and protect our financial privacy, autonomy and freedom.