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Pay "contact-less" with your phone
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this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2024
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Private payments with a wallet on you phone is something the digital Euro is supposed to offer, if it ever arrives as designed.
The digital euro, as a digital central-bank currency, is the last thing we want from the perspective of privacy.
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/faqs/html/ecb.faq_digital_euro.en.html
Fingers crossed, but it's hard to believe.
Right.
Because databases are never "hacked" and exfiltrated.
(By hacked, I mean most of the time it's social engineering.)
That just goes for all db.