The Digital Euro Reveals the Foundations of a Surveillance Society
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The Digital Euro Reveals the Foundations of a Surveillance Society
By Dutch MEP Auke Zijlstra According to the Commission and the Council, the digital euro is a payment system with both an offline and an online version. The offline version takes the form of a secure section of your mobile wallet, and payments are made using NFC by holding mobile phones close to one another. Battery-powered smartcards with similar functionality are also being considered. These do not require an internet connection. This is usefu…
On 30 seconds, what happened? The European Parliament approved without a vote the negotiating mandate for the digital euro, with the deadline of objections being exceeded today without any group having forced it. The rapporteur Fernando Navarrete (PPE) confirmed the agreement between popular, socialist and liberal. Who is behind it? The European Parliament is pushing for legislation that will allow the ECB to issue an alternative digital currenc…
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