“A high standard of privacy and data protection is instrumental in gaining citizens’ trust in this new digital currency,” the European Data Protection Board’s Deputy Chair Irene Loizidou Nicolaidou said in a statement, saying she wanted to “ensure that data protection is embedded early on in the design phase of the digital euro when used both online and offline.”
Source: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/10/18/eu-privacy-watchdog-takes-aim-at-excessive-centralization-of-digital-euro/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines