CBDCs should protect privacy, not be a surveillance tool: Former CFTC chair By Cointelegraph

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The United States should lead the development of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) away from being “surveillance coins” and toward being “freedom coins,” says the former chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

In a March 13 op-ed in The Hill, Christopher Giancarlo said that the U.S. “must influence” CBDC development toward protecting “democratic values like freedom of speech and the right to privacy,” leveraging current technology used by some cryptocurrency protocols.