2020-10-22 17:00 |
The U.S. Department of Justice's enforcement framework may pose a serious threat to the digital privacy rights of crypto users. origin »
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The Human Rights Foundation has just announced the second beneficiaries of its Bitcoin Development Fund. The fund, launched in June, focuses on financing developers who pursue greater privacy and censorship resistance tools for the network.
2020-8-5 18:04 | |
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U.S.-based company launched a VPN app for iOS users after witnessing a surge in VPN services demand across the world.
2020-7-9 21:40 | |
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On June 10, 2020, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) launched a fund that is dedicated to the development of tools that make the Bitcoin network “more private, decentralized, and resilient. ” HRF’s initial gift of $50,000 will be given to the UK-based developer, Chris Belcher, who has been working on a project called Coinswap.
2020-6-12 17:10 | |
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The Human Rights Foundation took a strong stance on bitcoin privacy tech Wednesday by announcing its new Bitcoin Developer Fund.
2020-6-10 21:08 | |
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The Human Rights Foundation has launched a fund to support development that makes Bitcoin more private. To start, $50,000 will go to the developer of CoinSwap. The post The Human Rights Foundation Is Now Funding Bitcoin Privacy Development, Starting With CoinSwap appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2020-6-11 19:00 | |
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Privacy campaigners and civil rights groups have been rightly flagging their concerns about state surveillance resulting from coronavirus “track-and-trace” endeavors. The U.K. now appears to be stepping up its efforts... The post Controversial AI Firm Awarded $500,000 Contract for Coronavirus Tracing appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2020-6-3 08:36 | |
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A member of the Hyperledger Identity Working Group on how we can keep track of COVID-19 without giving up our digital rights.
2020-5-29 00:42 | |
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Responding to Larry Summers at Consensus: Distributed this week, Michael Casey argues that money needs more privacy, not less, and that, ultimately, our rights as financial citizens are at stake.
2020-5-16 20:10 | |
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European researchers are looking for ways to track the spread of coronavirus while respecting privacy rights.
2020-4-14 23:21 | |
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The rights to privacy and anonymity of the online community and within the norms of our daily routines as human beings is a virtue which has been inevitable for decades but ignored in essence by majority of countries/governments around the globe.
2020-4-6 06:00 | |
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Safeguarding privacy rights is tricky during a time of pandemic and panic.
2020-3-17 21:00 | |
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Правозащитная организация Human Rights Foundation объявила, что будет принимать пожертвования в биткоинах через BTC Pay Server. HRF now accepts #Bitcoin donations through @BtcpayServer! A great project that helps with privacy + doesn’t collect your information.
2020-3-13 11:31 | |
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Tor software is a vital tool for dissidents worldwide, but privacy and freedom online should not be a luxury. Human rights are not radical. The post Privacy Isn’t Radical: How Tor Supports Dissent as a Human Right appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2020-3-4 16:01 | |
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“If you have rights but never flex them, your muscles will get weak."
The post Video: Trace Mayer on Proof of Keys, Sovereignty and Bitcoin Privacy appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2019-12-31 16:00 | |
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In a recent report released by the Human Rights Foundation (HRF), it was explained that privacy tooling for stablecoins appears to be extremely lackluster. Privacy coins are cryptocurrencies that tend to have different features to protect users’ privacy while sending and receiving payments.
2019-11-22 20:48 | |
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The Human Rights Foundation has published its analysis of major stablecoins’ privacy tooling and censorship resilience, stating that stablecoin privacy is “extremely lackluster”
2019-11-22 15:03 | |
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“I think the government should be required to have a warrant to delve into our internet activity. Even the Supreme Court did not address this, leaving all of us vulnerable to secret government surveillance of what we do on the internet.
2019-10-12 19:00 | |
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The debate over the police using machine learning is intensifying – it is considered in some quarters as controversial as stop and search. Stop and search is one of the most contentious areas of how the police interact with the public.
2019-9-21 12:00 | |
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Brittany Kaiser, Former Employee from UK’s Cambridge Analytica (CA) to Visit Korea this Month “Utilizing Big Data from Personal On and Offline Areas As Digital Assets” Kaiser, the co-founder of DATA is in the process of filing a data ownership petition (#OwnYourData) for Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Brittany Kaiser, co-founder of Digital Asset […]
2019-9-19 15:44 | |
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Coinspeaker ‘Facebook’s Data Privacy Scandal’ Whistleblower Brittany Kaiser, Promotes ‘Data Rights’ Activism at KBW 2019Brittany Kaiser, former employee from UK’s Cambridge Analytica (CA) to visit Korea this month.
2019-9-19 01:48 | |
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Privacy is a basic human right. It’s there in Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: “Freedom from Interference with Privacy, Family, Home and Correspondence. ” Attaining that right in an era of dragnet surveillance, mass data breaches, state-sponsored hacks and big tech overreach, however, is a Herculean task.
2019-7-23 04:33 | |
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S&P Dow Jones revealed the embarrassing reason it booted Facebook stock from the S&P 500 ESG Index. Facebook’s cornucopia of privacy scandals caused its ESG score to plunge to alarming levels.
2019-6-15 20:14 | |
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According to the nonprofit research and advocacy center called Coin Center, the proposed anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CTF) regulations violate users’ privacy rights. Coin Center has urged Her Majesty’s Treasury not to implement these regulations.
2019-6-11 02:50 | |
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Nonprofit crypto policy center Coin Center has urged Her Majesty’s Treasury not to over-broaden the scope of U.K.’s anti-money laundering/counter terrorism financing regulations
2019-6-11 22:36 | |
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It’s not like any of us went to a store for unethical people and told the clerk to load us up with dozens of products and services developed by companies that have no regard for personal privacy, human rights, or the future of our planet.
2019-6-8 00:17 | |
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Human Rights Foundation Debates If Privacy Of Bitcoin Could Protect Journalists From Danger Journalists and cryptocurrency are an unlikely twosome, but the Human Rights Foundation recently published a blog post that would bring these two subjects together.
2019-3-13 01:46 | |
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It’s not just because you are a criminal and the coppers might catch you. Or because you really, really hate big corporations who just want to sell you stuff more easily. Or because you’re paranoid.
2019-3-9 16:30 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase purchased controversial Italian software services provider Neutrino for $13. 5 million (€12 million), a copy of a legal document dated February 15, 2019, and shared with Bitcoin Magazine reveals.
2019-3-7 20:29 | |
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After a week of community discontent, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has decided to sever its business relationship with Neutrino employees who previously worked at the notorious Italian malware/software provider Hacking Team.
2019-3-5 19:09 | |
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Coinbase’s Director of Institutional Sales, Christine Sandler, said in an interview last week that, in part, the exchange acquired controversial software firm Neutrino because its prior blockchain analysis providers were selling customer data.
2019-3-5 23:58 | |
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When Coinbase acquired Neutrino for an unspecified amount in February 2019, the news looked like business as usual: A cryptocurrency juggernaut had made another acquisition.
2019-3-1 17:19 | |
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation is taking the SEC to task for potentially repressive policies related to enforcement actions levied against crypto industry firms. Free speech online is the EFF’s wheelhouse, but in a recent blog post, they’ve also addressed other matters in the cryptosphere.
2019-2-14 22:19 | |
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Announced at the end of January, Bitfury’s production-ready suite of Lightning Network products and services, Peach, appears to offer everything a developer, user or merchant could want from a Lightning implementation.
2019-2-9 23:59 | |
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Announced at the end of January, Bitfury’s production-ready suite of Lightning Network products and services, Peach, appears to offer everything a developer, user or merchant could want from a Lightning implementation.
2019-2-12 23:59 | |
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October 31, 2008, and January 3, 2009. The two dates have cemented themselves with Promethean significance into Bitcoin’s lore. On the October 31, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper, a constitution of sorts for his revolutionary monetary system and its intrinsic currency.
2019-1-3 07:14 | |
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I hate New Year. I don’t do resolutions and am generally “bah, humbug” about the whole hullabaloo. This year, my curmudgeonly attitude was dramatically amplified by social media in general, and Facebook in particular.
2019-1-2 16:59 | |
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is finding its way into more and more aspects of our daily lives. It powers the smart assistants on our mobile phones and virtual “home assistants. ” It’s in the algorithms designed to improve our health diagnostics.
2018-12-25 16:00 | |
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Have you noticed the increasing number of pop-ups asking you to consent or “agree” when you visit a website? Do you find these annoying and tend to just click accept without reading the policies? So do most people, and here’s why that’s a problem.
2018-12-20 17:00 | |
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Google has stopped developing its censored search engine for China, known as project Dragonfly. The tech giant was forced to shut down a data analysis system used for its development after members of the company’s privacy team objected to it, according to The Intercept.
2018-12-18 14:04 | |
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IMF MD Acknowledges The Importance Of blockchain: Discusses How Blockchain Could Revolutionize Freedom, Privacy. Technology has an interesting relationship with how it interacts with individual rights and general morality.
2018-12-7 19:51 | |
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On the latest episode of Season 2 of Distributed Dialogues, the hosts took a deep dive into the state of political repression in the People’s Republic of China.
2018-10-31 21:00 | |
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Listen Here – https://soundcloud. com/cryptodaily/how-monero-are-improving-human-rights-with-xmr Monero is considered to be the privacy coin, the currency of choice for absolute privacy. Now, privacy doesn’t necessarily mean security and we should remember that 2018 has seen a tonne of ‘Monero mining’ hacks, calling into question some of the projects integrity.
2018-10-12 17:00 | |
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The victory of freedom signified the end of World War II (WWII), the terms of which are outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations in 1948. It is the same freedom that is in jeopardy today as governments have found new exploits to violate people’s privacy.
2018-10-11 16:54 | |
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Cryptography Startup Invests in Anti-Snooping Projects Mainframe, a Utah-based security and cryptography startup company, has recently taken steps to donate nearly USD $2 million in a variety of different privacy and human rights efforts all over the world.
2018-8-8 23:40 | |
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Modern regulation like GDPR puts increasing stress on rights for privacy and even “absence” in cyberspace. While human rights and concepts of the individual are contested in the world, cyberspace seems to lean toward greater human rights in a uniform, global way.
2018-8-2 15:00 | |
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The darknet site founded by Ross Ulbricht, Silk Road, has been offline for years now. But the legal questions behind his conviction and subsequent sentencing to life in prison without the possibility of parole in 2015, remain fresh, raw and real to Ulbricht’s advocates.
2018-7-28 23:38 | |
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The Supreme Court announced on June 28, 2018, that it will not reconsider the conviction or life sentence of Ross Ulbricht, the alleged mastermind behind the darknet site Silk Road.
2018-6-30 23:20 | |
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The Digital Future Council made its public debut on June 18, 2018, at the 2018 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. With founding members from such organizations as IBM, Vice, CNN, Lego and Warner Bros.
2018-6-20 21:56 | |
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Bitcoin. org took off two of the largest US-based Bitcoin Companies; BitPay and Coinbase. The discussion of the taking down of both the companies from the channel had been started around December 2017 on Reddit.
2018-6-11 21:40 | |
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The Justice Department's new crypto enforcement framework lays out its case for prosecuting alleged crimes around the world while taking aim at privacy-enhancing tools.