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commit c2cc6214b21d3ab7f5fa07e16385f2aa095b150f
Author: Özgür Kesim <oec-taler@kesim.org>
AuthorDate: Tue Jan 4 11:12:40 2022 +0100

    added references, minor updates
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 2022-privacy/literature.bib | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 2022-privacy/privacy.tex    | 33 ++++++++++++++++-----------------
 2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/2022-privacy/literature.bib b/2022-privacy/literature.bib
index 9453c3c..94c43b9 100644
--- a/2022-privacy/literature.bib
+++ b/2022-privacy/literature.bib
@@ -220,4 +220,37 @@ pages = {549–564},
 numpages = {16},
 location = {Austin, TX, USA},
 series = {SEC'16}
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
+
+
+@Misc{tcimer2020,
+  author =       {Cem Tecimer},
+  title =        {{“Is the Turkish Central Bank Independent?” as an 
Uninteresting Question}},
+  howpublished = 
{\url{https://verfassungsblog.de/is-the-turkish-central-bank-independent-as-an-uninteresting-question/}},
+  year =         {2020},
+  month =       {November},
+  doi   =       {10.17176/20201118-161945-0},
+}
+
+@Misc{BG2016,
+  author =       {Bank of Greece},
+  title =        {Statute of the Bank of Greece, tenth edition},
+  howpublished = 
{\url{https://www.bankofgreece.gr/en/the-bank/legal-framework/statute}},
+  year =         {2016},
+}
+
+@Misc{SNB,
+  author =      {Swiss National Bank},
+  title =       {Breakdown of share ownership},
+  howpublished = 
{\url{https://www.snb.ch/en/mmr/reference/shares_structure/source/shares_structure.en.pdf}},
+  year =        {2020},
+}
+
+@article{snb2021,
+  author       = {David Chaum and Christian Grothoff and Thomas Moser},
+  title        = {{How to issue a central bank digital currency}},
+  journal      = {SNB working paper seires},
+  year         = {2021},
+  url          = {https://www.snb.ch/en/mmr/papers/id/working_paper_2021_03}
+}
+
diff --git a/2022-privacy/privacy.tex b/2022-privacy/privacy.tex
index 38553d1..0a4f3a7 100644
--- a/2022-privacy/privacy.tex
+++ b/2022-privacy/privacy.tex
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 \usepackage{enumitem}
 
 \title{Accounts Considered Harmful}
-\author{Christian Grothoff \and \"Oezguer Kesim}
+\author{Christian Grothoff \and \"Ozg\"ur Kesim}
 \date{\today}
 \begin{document}
 
@@ -12,14 +12,14 @@
 
 \abstract{
 The European Central Bank (ECB) published a report on ``Central Bank Digital
-Currency: functional scope, pricing and controls'' in its' Occasional Paper
+Currency: functional scope, pricing and controls'' in its Occasional Paper
 Series in December 2021 detailing various challenges for the Digital Euro.
 While the authors peripherally acknowledge the existence of token-based
 payment systems, the notion that a Digital Euro will somehow require citizens
 to have some kind of central bank account is pervasive in the paper. We argue
 that an account-based design cannot meet the ECB's stated design goals and
-that the ECB needs to fundamentally change its mindset when thinking about
-itself and the Digital Euro if it wants the project to succeed.
+that the ECB needs to fundamentally change its mindset when thinking about its
+role in the context of the Digital Euro if it wants the project to succeed.
 }
 
 \section{The European Central Bank cannot be the Guardian of Privacy}
@@ -33,14 +33,14 @@ to the extent necessary for performing their functions and 
in full compliance
 with public interest objectives and legislation.'' While this is a laudable
 aspiration, it is false.  The Bank of Greece, one of the central banks of the
 Eurosystem, is dominantly privately held and listed on the Athen's stock
-exchange~\cite{wikipedia}.  Similar constructions with privately owned central
+exchange~\cite{BG2016}.  Similar constructions with privately owned central
 banks exist outside of the Eurozone, for example with the Swiss National
 Bank~\cite{SNB}.  That all central banks are independent and operate in the
-public interest is currently widely questioned in the popular press in the
-case of Turkey~\cite{FIXME}.  With counter-examples inside the ECB itself and
-within Europe, it is clear that the ECB's is caught in a dangerous
-self-delusion of central banks being an politically neutral and public-minded
-institutions.
+public interest is currently widely questioned in the popular press in the case
+of Turkey~\cite{tcimer2020}.  With counter-examples inside the European System
+of Central Banks (ECBS) itself and within Europe, it is clear that the ECB's is
+caught in a dangerous self-delusion of central banks being an politically
+neutral and public-minded institutions.
 
 This delusion is dangerous because it leads to the ECB trusting itself with
 information and decisions that it must be entrusted with.  In particular, the
@@ -60,19 +60,18 @@ for critical infrastructure created by European 
institutions.
 
 \section{Accounts}
 
-
-The probably worst idea of the ECB report is ```combining use of digital
+The probably worst idea of the ECB report is ``combining use of digital
 identity and CBDC''.  Edward Snowden famously said at IETF 93 in 2019 that
 \begin{quote}
-  ``I think one of the big things that we need to do, is we need to get a way
+  ``I think one of the big things that we need to do, is we need to get away
   from true-name payments on the Internet. The credit card payment system is
   one of the worst things that happened for the user, in terms of being able
   to divorce their access from their identity.''
 \end{quote}
-If we want to avoid the transparent citizen dystopia (associated in the West
-with the vilified Chinese surveilance state), we must enable citizens to put a
-firewall between their identity and their payments. Tightly coupling them is
-thus probably the worst idea so far proposed in the design space for CBDCs.
+If we want to avoid the dystopia of the transparent citizen (associated in the
+West with the vilified Chinese surveilance state), we must enable citizens to
+put a firewall between their identity and their payments. Tightly coupling them
+is thus probably the worst idea so far proposed in the design space for CBDCs.
 
 The Swiss population recently rejected a proposal for a national E-ID, and the
 newly elected German government is promising a reversal of ubiquitous data

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