2020-2-9 12:00 |
Mutale Nkonde, a Harvard researcher, argues the US should pass a privacy law modeled on California's new CCPA.
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Europol, the European Union’s Law Enforcement Agency recently released a two-part report analyzing the impact of privacy tools in crimes related to cryptocurrency. Privacy tools such as Wasabi wallets are used by individuals to hide the origin of crypto transactions.
2020-6-6 21:58 | |
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Darknet market activity hit new highs in 2019, as shown in a new report from blockchain forensics firm Chainalysis. Despite concerted attempts from law enforcement (LE) to crack down on darknet markets (DNMs), coupled with several exit scams, crypto inflows and outflows surpassed $800 million last year.
2020-1-30 22:00 | |
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Anonymity in crypto faces extinction after new EU law: “Only true privacy coins like Monero might stand the test of time and resist de-anonymization”
2020-1-18 05:02 | |
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Coinspeaker Binance CEO Shares Thoughts on Privacy, Exchanges and Law TrickeryThe KYC, AML, and Wasabi wallet cause lots of uncertainty in the crypto exchange space. Changpeng Zhao shared his views on some of the common withdrawal issues in a blog post.
2019-12-21 21:28 | |
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Crypto transactions have always been thought of as highly anonymous. This article looks at whether authorities monitor such transactions, providing detailed information on the subject. It is now becoming easier for authorities and law enforcement departments to track crypto currency transactions.
2019-11-9 01:58 | |
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When news about Bitcoin being the main factor behind the crackdown on the largest child pornography website broke out, some speculated that this would lead to an increased use of privacy-enhancing cryptocurrencies for illicit activities on the deep web, making it harder for law enforcement agencies to track down the people involved in illegal activities.
2019-10-18 17:30 | |
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The tug of war between privacy and security has come to the fore again. This time, the US, the UK, and Australia are making a case against end-to-end encryption (E2EE), calling on Facebook to delay its plans to implement the privacy feature across its messaging apps until “there is no reduction to user safety and without including a means for lawful access to the content of communications to protect our citizens.
2019-10-4 12:39 | |
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Wyoming Blockchain Coalition president Caitlin Long says two new laws will further protect blockchain developers as well as privacy of wallet keys
2019-9-30 12:54 | |
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Google just won a case in Europe’s top court (CJEU) over the EU‘s right to be forgotten. The court confirmed that the search engine giant would only need to remove reported links from search results in Europe — not globally — the BBC reports.
2019-9-24 12:46 | |
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What you do with your digital currency ought to be nobody else’s business. Unfortunately, law enforcement, regulators, blockchain forensics firms and other opponents of civil liberties are constantly seeking to usurp this basic human right.
2019-9-4 22:30 | |
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is planning to step up its efforts to monitor social media platforms more aggressively in order to detect potential threats. The move, according to the Wall Street Journal, clashes with Facebook’s privacy policies and “possibly its attempts to comply with a record $5 billion settlement with the U.
2019-8-13 10:03 | |
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is planning to step up its efforts to monitor social media platforms more aggressively in order to detect potential threats. The move, according to the Wall Street Journal, clashes with Facebook’s privacy policies and “possibly its attempts to comply with a record $5 billion settlement with the U.
2019-8-13 10:03 | |
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Rumors have broken out on Twitter, and crypto Reddit after user Hayden Otto (@haydenotto_) tweeted a video showing the Tron HQ lobby full of at least nine law enforcement officers, and several angry bystanders.
2019-7-9 18:54 | |
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Rumors have broken out on Twitter, and crypto Reddit after user Hayden Otto (@haydenotto_) tweeted a video showing the Tron HQ lobby supposedly full of at least nine law enforcement officers, and several angry bystanders.
2019-7-8 18:54 | |
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As per a number of reports circulating on Twitter, protestors currently rallying against the existing Hong Kong government are moving towards cash-based payments so as to avoid being tracked by local law enforcement agencies (for expressing dissent against the current regime.
2019-6-13 18:13 | |
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A GDPR case against Facebook, launched by Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems, has been deemed legal under EU law after the Austrian Supreme Court’s ruling, ComputerWeekly reports. Why is this a big deal? Because Facebook has been trying to block this case for five years, and winning a ruling against one of the richest companies in the world is huge news.
2019-6-12 18:06 | |
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Hong Kong is waking up to the benefits of financial privacy using cash, reports claim, as protesters seek to hide their movements and identity. Hong Kong Pays Cash To ‘Avoid Tracking’ According to various reports surfacing on social media this week, participants in the ongoing rallies against the Hong Kong government are choosing to abandon payment methods which could track them.
2019-6-12 12:00 | |
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Over the last few years, privacy has become of great importance to digital asset enthusiasts as law enforcement has cracked down on money transmitters, seized coin shuffling services, and blockchain analysis has increased significantly.
2019-5-27 05:20 | |
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Sa Xiao, Council Member at the Bank of China Law Research Association, was reported as saying that holding Bitcoin in China is still legal. Xiao added that in addition to that, trading Bitcoin amongst individuals remains legal in the country.
2019-5-22 14:29 | |
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It looks as if cryptocurrency service providers will have to adopt stricter know-your-customer (KYC) policies all across the world — and not everyone is happy about that.
2019-5-13 21:33 | |
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By CCN. com: Don’t believe what Mark Zuckerberg tells you. Facebook is not remotely interested in protecting your privacy. The company just hired Jennifer Newstead as general counsel, a lawyer widely cited as co-writer of the Patriot Act, famously granting unprecedented snooping powers to the US government.
2019-4-23 17:40 | |
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The EU’s parliament voted to create a big biometric database known as the Common Identity Repository (CIR). The database will bring together the records of over 350 million people and help simplify the jobs of EU border and law enforcement officers.
2019-4-22 16:45 | |
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Law enforcement agencies in the state of Utah are banned from doing digital data searches without a warrant, making it the first state in the US to adopt such a law. The citizens’ electronic data can only be accessed if the police or other security agencies get a warrant, with this latest development serving as […] Utah Bans Warrantless Searches of Electronic Data by Police was originally found on Cryptocurrency News | Tech, Privacy, Bitcoin & Blockchain | Blokt.
2019-4-19 16:59 | |
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The political spectrum is usually divided into four main categories: libertarian left, authoritarian left, libertarian right and authoritarian right. Those on the left prefer a more controlled economy, while those on the right have a preference for free markets.
2019-4-16 22:26 | |
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The Russian Duma approved a bill that would enable the country to have a “Great Firewall” or “Iron Curtain” similar to what China has. The result of the law is that, whenever the government wants to, it can censor all incoming and outgoing traffic traveling through state-owned channels.
2019-4-13 00:58 | |
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Yesterday, the Madras High Court, situated in the southern Indian city of Chennai, directed the country’s central government to ban TiKTok, the popular video creation app from Chinese giant Bytedance.
2019-4-4 14:56 | |
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First they came for our privacy. Then our data. Finally they took our memes. If the more hyperbolic headlines are to be believed, the EU’s ratification of the controversial Article 13 copyright law will have repercussions for purveyors of highly shareable online content.
2019-3-30 01:00 | |
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The UK’s “porn block” or porn ban is an epic violation of privacy and data harvesting. It’s also doomed to fail and will lead to high-profile sexual extortion. Let’s back up. If you haven’t heard of the UK’s porn block, you’re not alone.
2019-3-20 17:36 | |
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An untitled bill before the Texas legislature is just ridiculous. House Bill 4371, which is less than 500 words long, calls for people to “verify” the identity of senders before receiving cryptocurrency.
2019-3-12 09:44 | |
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Cryptocurrency lawyer and Coin Center head of research Peter van Valkenburgh has led criticism of a controversial new US law currently before lawmakers in Texas. ‘Not How Digital Currencies Work’ The bill, HB 4371, affects Texas only, seeking to ban usage of anonymous cryptocurrencies between unidentified parties.
2019-3-11 17:00 | |
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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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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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With the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games just one year away, Japan isn’t leaving anything to chance. On Friday, the country approved a law that would allow the government to hack into insecure IoT devices, in order to survey the number of easily-hackable gadgets that exist within the country.
2019-1-28 16:35 | |
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One of the defining moments for tech in 2018 was on May 25, when the EU implemented its General Data Protection Regulation — the ominous GDPR. The ambitious legislation is the toughest privacy and security law in the world and was meant to guarantee users better control over their over their personal data.
2018-12-27 12:00 | |
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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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In a country where consumers (read: taxpayers) already have little-to-no privacy, it seems outrageous that billion-dollar technology companies can make closed-door deals with law enforcement agencies without US Congressional oversight.
2018-12-13 22:13 | |
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A lot of cryptocurrency enthusiasts and market observers reference websites that measure the digital asset economy by market capitalization. Now there’s a new data website, Coinmarketbook. cc, that calculates a cryptocurrency’s buy support based on order books held on various exchanges.
2018-12-6 01:15 | |
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Startup Atomicpay. io announced the beta launch of its cryptocurrency payment gateway on Dec. 3, with support for six different digital assets. The payment processor eliminates third parties and allows merchants to accept cryptocurrencies in a noncustodial fashion.
2018-12-4 19:40 | |
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The U. S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published its 2019 fiscal year pre-solicitation document. Throughout the 27-page letter, the organization explains that it wants to dedicate resources toward creating blockchain forensic applications that can analyze privacy-centric digital asset movements.
2018-12-4 05:50 | |
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Crypto wallet users in Japan may have to reveal their identities as the country’s top financial watchdog prepares a law for it. The Financial Services Agency (FSA) on Monday revealed its plan to regulate cryptocurrency wallet providers, ItMedia reported.
2018-11-16 15:11 | |
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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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Privacy-centric digital currencies are coming under more scrutiny as their use on dark web marketplaces is on the rise. Law enforcement agencies and several financial regulators are concerned that anonymous digital currencies could be used to facilitate terrorist financing and money laundering in a de facto untraceable manner.
2018-10-7 21:00 | |
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This rather long meme, which has been circulating lately, makes fun of the views of Bitcoin supporters by listing commonly made statements and contrasting them with contradicting statements or developments.
2018-10-4 22:27 | |
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Basic Attention Token, the native token to the Brave project and the token designed to fully incentivise the consumption of fair advertising. According to reports, the CEO of Brave, Brendan Eich has written to the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation in order to address some of the concerns he has regarding the current privacy laws in the United States.
2018-10-2 16:00 | |
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In a move to expand its asset offerings, Coinbase has created a new process by which anyone with a token can apply to have it listed on the platform. This news comes weeks after Coinbase said it was exploring the addition of several new assets including Stellar Lumens (XLM), Zcash (ZEC) and Cardano (ADA).
2018-9-27 01:15 | |
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One of the key tradeoffs in blockchain design is whether to build more functionality into base-layer blockchains themselves (“layer 1”), or to build it into protocols that live on top of the blockchain, and can be created and modified without changing the blockchain itself (“layer 2”).
2018-8-28 04:03 | |
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Law and technology scholar specializing in digital property, electronic contract, big data privacy, and virtual communities. Co-Founder and CEO of Clovyr startup, which essentially functions as a decentralized app store.
2018-7-22 23:18 | |
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Encryption inventor and head of MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative are among authors of a new paper that points out why blockchain and voting are a bad pairing.
FTX said the price of one TRUMP contract roughly equals the president's expected chances of reelection.
Presidential contender Andrew Yang dropped out of the race Tuesday. He advocated for clear crypto guidelines in the U.S. during his run.
Crypto traders outside the U.S. now have a way to weigh in on President Trump thanks to a new digital token, the TRUMP.
If anything, blockchains add meaningful complexity, which means more ways things could go wrong under imperfect, or real-life conditions.
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