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commit b8560a315b355e4c6e7cf9835bc6737f44fc9999
Author: Christian Grothoff <grothoff@gnunet.org>
AuthorDate: Sat Jan 8 11:24:41 2022 +0100

    merging changes from Martin
---
 2022-privacy/literature.bib |  9 +++++++++
 2022-privacy/privacy.tex    | 11 +++++++++--
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/2022-privacy/literature.bib b/2022-privacy/literature.bib
index a37da58..3978e10 100644
--- a/2022-privacy/literature.bib
+++ b/2022-privacy/literature.bib
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+@misc{schneier2016toxic,
+  title = {Data Is a Toxic Asset, So Why Not Throw It Out?},
+  year = {2016},
+  month = {March},
+  howpublished = 
{\url{https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2016/03/data_is_a_toxic_asse.html}},
+}
+
+
+
 @article{cap,
 author = {Gilbert, Seth and Lynch, Nancy},
 title = {Brewer's Conjecture and the Feasibility of Consistent, Available, 
Partition-Tolerant Web Services},
diff --git a/2022-privacy/privacy.tex b/2022-privacy/privacy.tex
index 557b3f0..09d1286 100644
--- a/2022-privacy/privacy.tex
+++ b/2022-privacy/privacy.tex
@@ -63,7 +63,15 @@ for critical infrastructure created by European institutions.
 \section{Harmful coupling with identity}
 
 The probably most dangerous idea of the ECB report is ``combining use of
-digital identity and CBDC''.  Edward Snowden famously said at IETF 93 in 2019
+digital identity and CBDC''.
+Because even if central banks were neutral custodians of citizens' privacy
+(see above) the problem is the data itself.
+As Bruce Schneier has concisely argued already in 2016: ``Data is a toxic 
asset.
+We need to start thinking about it as such, and treat it as we would any other
+source of toxicity. To do anything else is to risk our security and 
privacy.''~\cite{schneier2016toxic}
+And here, the ECB is basically proposing to link identities with payments which
+consequently and inevitably produces highly sensitive metadata.
+Edward Snowden famously said at IETF 93 in 2019
 that \begin{quote}
   ``(...) 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
@@ -71,7 +79,6 @@ that \begin{quote}
   identity.''
 \end{quote}
 If the European Union wants to avoid a dystopia of the transparent citizen
-(associated in the West with the vilified surveilance state in China),
 it 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.

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