That’s why only Central Banks can create digital currencies
The Fed recently put out a white paper, Data Privacy for Digital Asset Systems, which contends that the expectation of privacy in digital currencies (read: CBDCs) stems from misunderstanding how digital systems work.
“Concepts such as the desire for ‘cash-like anonymity’ are based on false underlying assumptions.”, is the crux of it (quick, somebody tell the Monero team, and everybody else already deploying anonymizing protocols and applications for digital assets).
The subtext is that there can be some privacy and confidentiality safeguards built into CBDCs, but at the end of the day those would still be subject to being overridden or dispensed with. The paper doesn’t come out and say that, but it does make oblique references:
https://bombthrower.com/wef-somebody-has-to-be-in-charge-of-rationing-privacy/
The Liberals must stop growing the public service and instead find ways to boost the economy
(Really, get off our backs and get out of the way. That's all it would take)
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/fire-the-bureaucrats
https://wokewatchcanada.substack.com/p/did-the-rcmps-indigenous-policing