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I'd be worried they'd wait until the population was reliant upon it, and then flip a switch disabling privacy. Seems risky.

'they' are the population -- you can read BoE proposals on digital currency in the open; and likewise, the legal framework will be public

the 'they' who flip switches are more company boards, rather than public democratic institutions of western liberal states

for them to implement anything other than published papers on the system, it would require a conspiracy -- one unjustified given how trivial it is to monitor people anyway

> fyi, central bank digital currencies are generally proposed as an anonymous system of digitally-native currency that means you would not have to use a bank/paypal/etc. to conduct transactions online

I am not aware of a single CBDC that is anonymous. Do you have a source for this claim?

the bank of england

Taler is semi-anonymous, for the buyer but not for the seller, to avoid tax evasion.

>it's a way of central banks taking back control of the currency system from mastercard/paypal/yourbank/etc.

The middlemen are going to fight this to the very end, even if they have to resort to dirty tactics. It's no wonder that so much misinformation has cropped up on these in the last few years.

I guess that means they won't track you then! Lol