Hong Kong bans Worldcoin’s data collection over alleged privacy violations

Hong Kong’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) has prohibited Worldcoin from collecting data in the region due to privacy violation concerns, according to a May 22 notice.

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Celebrating Data Privacy Day With Bitcoin And Crypto

Today is International Data Privacy Day — a day focused on raising awareness around data privacy best practices. Data privacy is an important aspect of Bitcoin and some other altcoins, and as such, we’re celebrating Data Privacy day with a list of best practices for crypto users.

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HOPR Staking Lets You Earn Rewards and NFTs While Supporting Data Privacy

The HOPR protocol provides network-level and metadata privacy for every kind of data exchange. Designed to be better than TOR, the mixnet protects the identity of both sender and recipient by routing data via multiple intermediate relay hops that mix traffic.

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The 5 best decentralized VPNs for data privacy

Spearheaded by Deeper Network, here are the 5 hottest blockchain-powered projects out in 2021.

The post The 5 best decentralized VPNs for data privacy appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Brave vs DuckDuckGo Browser vs Epic Privacy Browser – Privacy Browsers Compared

We are living through a digital revolution where your personal data is the most important currency in the new world of information. Protecting this data, whose loss can be life-threatening in some cases, is of utmost importance.

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Why the insurance tech industry needs to lead the way on privacy

Technology is woven into every aspect of our lives, from the fitness data on our Apple Watches to the automatic brake sensors in our cars. As a result, there are massive amounts of readily-available data that have intensified debates around data privacy and protection.

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Why the future of US data regulation must come from Congress

As of May 2019, over 20 US states have introduced bills seeking to regulate data privacy, data security, or some combination of the two. While many of these bills agree in spirit (i. e. privacy good, data collection and usage bad), the various bills are decidedly more divergent as to how to accomplish these objectives.

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How Blockchain Distributed Ledger Technology is the Solution for Data Privacy Issues

Data privacy remains one of the most important aspects of modern internet usage, but also one with the most issues that are accompanying it. For decades now, researchers working for cyber-security companies were in a constant war with those who would steal exposed data and misuse it, or sell it for profit. Whenever a new […]

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Blockchain Startup SwipeCrypto is Set to Reimagine Data Privacy and Monetization as We Know It Today

With the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal awakening data privacy concerns in the general public earlier this year, SWIPECrypto startup is using blockchain to restore trust and accountability to how data is used and handled.

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Prevention Technology: Ultimate Data Privacy Policy

Transforming data exchange and privacy as we know it, blockchain technology is to make a huge impact on privacy protection proving that people’s interests are of the highest priority. Digging Deeper into the Global Data Privacy Problem: Facebook Data Breach Data privacy has become a hot topic ever since the Facebook breach took place. Although

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Atlas Protocol: A new roadway for storage and data processing, privacy prioritized

What is GDPR? The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is a European Union regulation on consumer data and privacy protection. After four years of preparation and debate, the law was finally approved by the European Union Parliament on April 14th, 2016 and went into effect in the EU’s 28 member states on May 25th, 2018. […]

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Promoted: Ushering in a New Future — Cryptocurrency Investing With Invictus

The Bitcoin movement has brought with it a tidal wave of activity in cryptocurrency investments and trading. As a result, crypto market capitalization soared to an all-time high of around $820 billion in early January of 2018.

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Social Platforms Are Getting an Update Thanks to New Data Privacy Laws

Not so long ago, Mark Zuckerberg was summoned by Congress to explain the role Facebook played in the Russian interference of the 2016 US elections. The post Social Platforms Are Getting an Update Thanks to New Data Privacy Laws appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Waves Decentralized Exchange Sees $5 Million Daily Volume, Crypto Traders Move to DEX

Leading smart contracts blockchain Waves has initiated an overhaul of the design, user interface, and internal engine of its decentralized exchange to attract both casual and professional crypto traders.

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Andreessen Horowitz’s Cryptocurrency Fund Makes its First Investment

After  the launch of a blockchain and crypto-focused hedge fund, Silicon Valley investment houseAndressen Horowitz (A16Z) has  announced a $45 million funding in blockchain-based privacy emphasized cloud project “Oasis Labs.

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LegalThings One ICO

LegalThings One allows enterprises and governments to orchestrate interorganizational workflows in a decentralized way, maintaining full GDPR compliance and data privacy. Our mission is to provide technology to fight the bureaucracy, fraud and nepotism that plague so many organizations, industries and governments.

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HTC To Release Blockchain Phone Exodus

This week, HTC will release the Exodus, a blockchain-based smartphone. The company hopes the phone will popularize blockchain technology and revolutionize data privacy. But if the Exodus is to succeed, it will need to overcome a lot of barriers.

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Oasis Labs Blockchain Cloud Computing Raises $45 Million, Lead By a16zcrypto & Binance

Oasis Labs has announced it has raised $45 million from several investors to design a platform to overcome performance, security and privacy limitations that have hampered blockchain adoption to date.

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Oasis Labs raises $ 45 million

Oasis Labs today announced it has raised $45 million from a16zcrypto, Accel, Binance, DCVC (Data Collective), Electric Capital, Foundation Capital, Metastable, Pantera, Polychain, and more. Founded by a team of academic and entrepreneurial leaders, Oasis Labs is designing a platform to overcome performance, security and privacy limitations that have hampered blockchain adoption to date. Oasis

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Supreme Court ruling adds privacy protection for the digital age

Your phone knows where you’ve been. LightAndShare/Shutterstock.com Jonathan Weinberg, Wayne State University The Supreme Court has handed down a landmark privacy decision in a case about cellphone location data, suggesting there should be stronger protections against government searches for the increasing amount of private information that’s stored online. The case relates to location information routinely […]

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ONe Social Network Built on Trust and Transparency Readies Its TGE

ONe Network lets social media users retain full control of their data and privacy with a September 18th main sale token launch. The post ONe Social Network Built on Trust and Transparency Readies Its TGE appeared first on CoinSpeaker.

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Ross Ulbricht Is Denied Prison Sentence Review by Supreme Court

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.

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What Is PikcioChain Cryptocurrency?

As governments all across the globe continue to introduce legislation in regards to data privacy and storage, there is still a need to foster blockchain platforms that can help customers move their data across their devices in a seamless manner.

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Enigma Announces Partnership With Intel to Bolster Its Development of Private, Scalable Blockchain Tech

Enigma, a project aiming to provide blockchain solutions that allow for sensitive data storage on public ledgers, today announced a collaboration with major vendor Intel, intending to leverage the manufacturer’s competence in privacy-focused hardware.

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Basic Attention Token Flies With New User Trial Rollout

Privacy focused cryptocurrency, Basic Attention Token or BAT is the native cryptocurrency to the Brave privacy web browser concept. In essence, Brave was created to protect user privacy and stop intrusive data mining techniques that in turn are used to capture our data to be sold to advertisers and the likes.

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Data Giant Intel partners with DApp Platform Enigma in privacy research

Decentralized application (DApp) platform Enigma will partner with Intel on privacy research as it prepares to launch its blockchain testnet, the two companies confirmed June 20. Enigma, which completed a $45 mln Initial Coin Offering (ICO) in September of last year, said the collaboration would focus on “research and development efforts to advance development of

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B3i Moves Away From Open Source Hyperledger to Enterprise R3 Corda

The largest blockchain insurance consortium in the world, Blockchain Insurance Industry Initiative (B3i), is ditching the open source Hyperledger Fabric for the enterprise solution Corda developed by New York-based technology firm R3.

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Privacy applications to combine relationship with Intel cryptographic code

Intel is working with blockchain startup Enigma to help secure its privacy-enhancing smart contracts. As previously reported by CoinDesk, secret contracts are a type of smart contract for public blockchains that use cryptographic tricks to keep transaction data hidden from view.

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Digital Future Council Assembles Roster of Industry Leaders in Media, Tech

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.

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Bitfury Integrates Java, Allows for Private Chain Anchoring to Public Networks

Mining firm and blockchain software service company Bitfury wants to expedite blockchain development for traditional enterprise and business. Working toward this goal, the company announced today that it’s introducing Java binding for its blockchain service, Exonum.

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