Next to the fears of government overreach that the European Union’s ambitious digital euro project stirred, the main concern of the public is the prospective currency’s privacy framework. It appears that this worry might not be overblown after all, as the European Central Bank’s (ECB) latest presentation hints that user anonymity is not a desirable design option.

Patrick Hansen (crypto venture adviser, European digital asset regulatory whistleblower) will speak on Tuesday. Public attention was drawn to it to the ECB’s presentation titled “Digital Euro Privacy options.” The document is relatively short and This contains nine slides that lay out the possible options for user privacy in the EU’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), also known as the digital euro.