So, apparently PBO registration was very recently ruled illegal in the EU: https://www.transparency.org/en/press/global-civil-society-organisations-concerned-ab

So, apparently PBO registration was very recently ruled illegal in the EU: https://www.transparency.org/en/press/global-civil-society-organisations-concerned-about-cjeu-ruling-on-beneficial-ownership-transparency https://www.transparency.org/en/press/global-civil-society-o... My personal opinion is that this is a terrible decision. Anonymous speech - which requires privacy - is valuable for democracy; but anonymous power is corrosive to it. So we should treat these two things as mutually exclusive. If you are wielding the power of the state or a monied corporation, you should be surrendering your privacy in the process.