If this gets enough signatures, the EU will create a review committee, which, if they approve of the initiative, will draft a law for the European Parliament to vote on.

What makes even more sense is that they now might be secretly forced to hack for the government in exchange for bread and water and staying out of prison.

And yet so many people still refusing to switch to Signal, even tho Whatsapp is officially declared unsave by the government.

CBDCs could well take the prize for most dangerous thing in our lifetime, similar to nuclear weapons during the Cold War. I'm thinking of that line from the song in Les Mis. Look down, look down. You'll always be a slave. Look down, look down. You're standing in your grave.

Worked with the US federal government for much of my professional career, mostly in an adversarial role. "reliable federal data sources" do not exist

Why? Because you can’t sell them?