🗞️ Privacy tips, tools & technologies

🧵 ECB names digital euro service providers as the project advances, touting privacy and offline payments.

🔍 What can you do?: “Built-in privacy” often means privacy from merchants, not from the state/banks; vendor selection embeds corporate dependencies that become the real governors of monetary metadata.

🧍‍♀️ What could you do? Separate identities across wallets, practice cash-like habits (limited trace, minimal data), and use privacy-respecting payment tools that don’t tether spend to a unified ID.

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