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Digital Euro Will Have Privacy Safeguards, European Finance Ministers Say

04-05-2022

A new digital euro will offer greater privacy for smaller transactions but won't allow for full anonymity, officials said after a meeting of finance ministers from the currency bloc on Monday.

No formal decision has yet been taken whether to issue the central bank digital currency (CBDC), but the European Union is already considering how to tie payment innovations to anti-money laundering rules, both for the digital euro and private cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin.

Ministers had agreed that any new format for the euro should "accommodate privacy concerns," Irish Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe told reporters, but new rules will also be "counteracting the use of digital euros for unwarranted purposes."

 

"A risk-based approach could be followed allowing for more privacy for less risky and smaller transactions and vice versa," said Donohoe, who chairs the ministerial meetings known as the Eurogroup.

Offline payments for low value-payments made between people who are physically close, such as in stores and between friends, would help include those cut off from the financial system, he said, backing recent proposals made by the European Central Bank's Fabio Panetta.

The European Commission is due to present a consultation soon on any legislation that might be needed to back up the new digital euro, but has also been warned that an unduly centralized system could represent a "honeypot" of data for spies and constitute troubling mass surveillance.

"A completely anonymous digital euro is not desirable," the European Commission's Paolo Gentiloni told reporters.

The European Parliament last week agreed on controversial new anti-money laundering rules that would require identification of those participating in even small-value payments of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, which many in the industry have said would invade privacy and stifle innovation.

 

Source: Coindesk