Big Tech's business model isn't threatened by the prospect of new data privacy laws, says one VC. FAANG firms are too nimble, powerful and ingenious.
A bitcoin privacy technology is seeing more usage as the global markets tank.
Tracking mobile-phone data may save lives during the pandemic, but will it become a permanent feature of the surveillance state?
The coronavirus crisis may highlight the overlap between the surveillance state and the cryptocurrency industry.
Safeguarding privacy rights is tricky during a time of pandemic and panic.
The extreme surveillance measures taken to address COVID-19 are not normal or inevitable.
Tor Ekeland made a career of defending hackers. Now he's defending a hacker's trove: a company with 3 billion images in its database.
A Coinbase spokesperson said customer data had not been used in its trial of the tech.
What happens to your bitcoin after you die? Lightning developers think a "dead man's button" could be a new tool to passing your crypto to your heirs.
Sometimes the very laws meant to enforce privacy can result in companies sharing it.
There are tangible safety implications to consumer privacy violations, says Lindsey Barrett of Georgetown Law.
The arrest of Larry Harmon for an alleged connection to AlphaBay raises major questions: Do bitcoiners have a right to build privacy tech?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is defending a former Kraken employee embroiled in a lawsuit over an anonymous review of the crypto exchange on Glassdoor.
Fed Chairman Powell has given financial privacy advocates a glimmer of hope – and hinted at how the U.S. might competitively position a digitized dollar.
Mutale Nkonde, a Harvard researcher, argues the U.S. should pass a privacy law modeled on California's new CCPA.