Consumer Privacy

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Consumer Privacy is a general-purpose CBDC that generates data about users’ financial transactions in the same ways that Commercial Bank and Nonbank Money generates such data today. In the CBDC Intermediated Model that the Federal Reserve would consider, intermediaries would address privacy concerns by leveraging existing tools.

Source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/money-and-payments-20220120.pdf