Tag: Privacy
Bitcoin privacy tool Payjoin receives $100K grant from Maelstrom
Bitcoin developer Ben Allen has received a $100,000 grant from investment firm Maelstrom to support the development of Payjoin, a privacy-focused tool [...]
Coinbase faces lawsuit over alleged breaches of Illinois biometric privacy law
A group of Coinbase users from Illinois have filed a class-action lawsuit against the crypto exchange, alleging that its identity checks violate the s [...]
Trump’s V.A. Squeezes Mental Health Care in Crowed Offices, Raising Privacy Concerns
Clinicians at the Department of Veterans Affairs say the president’s return-to-office order is forcing many of them to work from makeshift spaces wher [...]
European Union to ban anonymous crypto and privacy tokens by 2027
The European Union is set to impose sweeping Anti-Money Laundering (AML) rules that will ban privacy-preserving tokens and anonymous cryptocurrency ac [...]
Coinbase files brief with US Supreme Court in support of taxpayers’ privacy
US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has filed an amicus brief in the country’s Supreme Court in support of a taxpayer fighting the Internal Reve [...]
Aztec launches StealthNote app giving privacy to corporate whistleblowers
Developers behind the Ethereum layer 2 Aztec Network have launched a whistleblowing platform called StealthNote that allows workers to vent about thei [...]
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin: ‘Privacy is freedom’
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said privacy should be a top priority for developers, warning that assumptions about transparency and good intenti [...]
Vitalik Buterin unveils roadmap for Ethereum privacy
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin outlined an extensive plan to enhance the privacy of the network he helped create.In an April 11 roadmap, Buterin [...]
Apple-UK data privacy row should not be secret, court rules
The Home Office has failed in its bid to keep all the details of its data privacy legal row with Apple out of the public domain.The UK government want [...]
EY updates privacy L2 as nixed Tornado Cash sanctions ease fears
Big Four accounting firm EY, formerly Ernst & Young, has changed its enterprise-focused Ethereum layer-2 blockchain Nightfall to a zero-knowledge [...]
Privacy Pools launch on Ethereum, with Vitalik demoing the feature
A new semi-permissionless privacy tool, Privacy Pools, has launched on Ethereum, allowing users to transact privately while proving their funds aren’t [...]
Privacy Pools launch on Ethereum, with Vitalik demoing the feature
A new semi-permissionless privacy tool, Privacy Pools, has launched on Ethereum, allowing users to transact privately while proving their funds aren’t [...]
No Toilet Paper and No Privacy: Returning to the Office, Federal Workers Walk Into Chaos
President Trump has described his new in-office requirement as a way to ensure workers are doing their jobs. He sees potentially leading more employee [...]
Privacy will unlock blockchain’s business potential
Opinion by: Eran Barak, CEO at Midnight It’s been almost 16 years since blockchain emerged from its esoteric fringes to enter global discourse, eviden [...]
NymVPN launches fully decentralized VPN amid privacy crackdown
Privacy protocol Nym has launched NymVPN, which it describes as the “world’s most secure VPN” and says will help protect users from government, corpor [...]