There are this topic related threads, CBDC will just be a new era means governments will deprive people of privacy because non will be a privacy coin, they will all be centralized fiat-pegged digital currencies that is controlled by the governments which can even likely be less private than the non-private fiats which will result to privacy completely lost in the world for people that will make use of the CBDC. But, it will be an effective means if collecting taxes from CBDC users and a way fiat is introduced into digital form in another means.