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SUMMARY:Annual PPE Lecture - Professor Alex Voorhoeve (LSE) on 'Power\, P
 rivacy\, and the Digital Pound'
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DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce the Annual PPE lecture for 2025. T
 his is a lecture on interdisciplinary issues relating to philosophy\, po
 litics\, and economics. Our speaker this year will be Professor Alex Voo
 rhoeve\, who will be discussing ‘Privacy\, Power\, and the Digital Pound
 .’ \n\nProfessor Voorhoeve is based at the LSE\, and works on the theory
  and practice of distributive justice (especially as it relates to healt
 h). He has acted as a consultant researcher to the WHO\, the World Bank\
 , and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. He is also a member of t
 he Bank of England’s and UK Treasury’s Academic Advisory Group on the de
 velopment of a ‘digital pound.’\n\nThe talk will last 45 minutes\, and w
 ill be followed by a Q&A of up to 45 minutes. We will hold a free drinks
  reception after the event\, which will run until 18.00. Attendance is f
 ree\, but please register using the Eventbrite page.\n\n\n\nEvent Detail
 s\n\n*Speaker: Professor Alex Voorhoeve (LSE)\n\n*Date: 15.00-16.30 on W
 ednesday 19 March 2025\n\n*Location: Simon Building 3.44A\n\n*Title: Pri
 vacy\, Power\, and the Digital Pound\n\n*Abstract: Many central banks ar
 e experimenting with\, or seriously considering\, a fully digital versio
 n of their currencies. Many critics have argued that such Central Bank D
 igital Currencies will undermine privacy by giving governments more info
 rmation about our everyday financial transactions and new power to disci
 pline and punish citizens. The Bank of England's proposed design of the 
 "Digital Pound" attempts to address these concerns by giving citizens an
 onymized digital wallets. Only private wallet service providers will kno
 w wallet holders' identities\; the Bank of England will not. An incentiv
 e for private wallet providers' to supply their services\, the proposal 
 runs\, will be the right to process and sell wallet users' data\, with u
 sers' consent. This talk argues that\, with some additional measures\, t
 his proposal may indeed mitigate concerns about privacy and power vis-a-
 vis the state. But it also argues that the Bank of England's proposals r
 aises a different worry: that it will increase\, in a problematic way\, 
 the private information and economic power held by private companies.\n
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:3.44A\, Simon Building\, Manchester
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