During a virtual video session at the Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies' 30th Anniversary Conference, People's Bank of China governor Gang Yi discussed recent developments regarding the country's central bank digital currency, or CBDC, known as the digital yuan (e-CNY). Gang specifically addressed the issue of privacy surrounding the Digital Yuan in the following statement, as translated by Cointelegraph:
Gang spoke on the storage and utilization of personal information belonging to users of the technology adding:
In recent months, the number of people with e-CNY accounts has ballooned to over 140 million. At the same time, its transaction volume surpassed 62 billion yuan ($9.7 billion) in October. When discussing the next
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