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Hi guys,

do you know a good and privacy friendly way to pay with your phone (like Google Pay)? I am using Graphene OS on a Pixel 8 and lice in Germany so some services might not be available here ๐Ÿ™ˆ

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[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The digital euro, as a digital central-bank currency, is the last thing we want from the perspective of privacy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I kinda disagree. Not just for the technical solution that is supposed to enable a fairly good level of privacy but also because I tend to trust ECB employees and ways of working as I've done a few projects with them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Moreover, personal transaction details of offline digital euro payments would only be known to the payer and the payee, providing a cash-like level of privacy.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/faqs/html/ecb.faq_digital_euro.en.html

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Right.

Because databases are never "hacked" and exfiltrated.

(By hacked, I mean most of the time it's social engineering.)

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

That just goes for all db.