The New Zealand government is working on a central bank digital currency but it has requirements for AML and terrorism funding so they refuse to make it anonymo

The New Zealand government is working on a central bank digital currency but it has requirements for AML and terrorism funding so they refuse to make it anonymous. I'm sure most governments are similar. They just need one reason like that and then they can poke around in people's spending for whatever reason they want. There'll always be some bogeyman that the general population or international pressure leads them to track people for.