Tag: Privacy
How EU’s MiCA Regulatory Package Threatens Crypto Privacy
The language included in the European Union's comprehensive crypto regulation, known as MiCA, is highly restrictive and could limit the growth and inn [...]
Dubai Prohibits Privacy Coins Under New Crypto Rules
The new rules define anonymity-enhancing crypto as "a type of Virtual Asset which prevents the tracing of transactions or record of ownership through [...]
Few Americans Understand Online Privacy and Tracking, Report Says
Many consumers want control over their personal details. But few understand how online tracking works, says a new report from the University of Pennsy [...]
Americans Flunked This Test on Online Privacy
Many consumers want control over their personal details. But few understand how online tracking works, says a new report from the University of Pennsy [...]
Balancing Privacy & Compliance to Ensure High Privacy for CBDC Payments
Today, the public already accepts some financial privacy invasion. Existing digital payment methods, such as debit and credit cards, bank account tran [...]
Ethereum’s Buterin Proposes ‘Stealth Addresses’ To Enhance Privacy Protections
Privacy has been a big concern for the Ethereum ecosystem, given that transacting on the blockchain is public. There are already some privacy mechanis [...]
Protecting Digital Privacy Rights: Congress Urged to Defend Pro-Privacy Future
This is why our organization, Fight for the Future, has released a letter signed by 40+ open-source, decentralized and/or privacy-preserving projects [...]
Norway’s digital currency project raises privacy questions
The small Nordic country of Norway may not be particularly notable on the global crypto map. With its 22 blockchain solution providers, the nation doe [...]
Blockchain privacy groups urge new US Congresspeople to protect privacy rights
Fight for the Future, a digital rights advocacy group, has posted an open letter on its website encouraging the new class of United States congresspeo [...]
‘Tracers in the Dark’ presents a fun crime story — and lesson in privacy
On its surface, Andy Greenburg’s new book, Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, is a standard crime story. Fans [...]
Zero-Knowledge Cryptography in 2023: The Year Privacy Becomes Practical
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Elizabeth Warren’s New Financial Surveillance Bill Is a Disaster for Privacy and Civil Liberties
In addition, the bill effectively bans privacy-enhancing technologies in blockchain networks. The bill would prohibit all financial institutions from [...]
Release of Trump Tax Returns Could Herald New Era for Taxpayer Privacy
Revealing private documents risks a tit for tat with Republicans set to retake control of the House of Representatives.
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Researchers use zero-knowledge to address privacy, AML concerns in stablecoins
Researchers from German crypto blockchain-based payments fintech etonec and other organizations have proposed using zero-knowledge proofs to ensure re [...]
Chelsea Manning: Crypto’s Privacy Problem Depends on Improving Its Technology
The whistleblower turned security consultant at blockchain startup Nym discusses why the issue of privacy is rooted in the underlying technology of cr [...]