Privacy

Bitcoin

US Navy Couple Charged With Selling 9,000 Stolen Identities for Bitcoin

Prosecutors allege the couple intended for the stolen personal information to be used in crime.

News  ·  3 February 2021
DeFi

DeFi Privacy Is Getting a Boost From Polkadot Parachain Manta Network

Manta Network will build MantaSwap now that it has closed a $1.1 million funding round.

Tech  ·  2 February 2021
China

Geopolitics at Stake in US Response to China’s Digital Yuan: Report

From privacy to political power, China’s digital yuan will have far-reaching implications.

Tech  ·  27 January 2021
Privacy

We Have Entered the Age of Anonymous Crypto

Spurred by an information crisis and compounding global unrest, privacy has entered public consciousness.

People  ·  25 January 2021
Privacy

Social Networks Are the Next Big Decentralization Opportunity

We have the core tech to enable radically more ethical and beneficial social media networks. Here's what we'll need.

Tech  ·  22 January 2021
Privacy

Privacy Coin Firo Launches ‘Privacy by Default’ Protocol on Mainnet

Lelantus introduces “on-by-default” privacy while also allowing partial redemptions of Firo’s burn-and-redeem model.

Tech  ·  14 January 2021
Privacy

IBM Launches Test Service Using ‘Holy Grail’ of Data Privacy Technology

The privacy technology, called fully homomorphic encryption, keeps data hidden even when being processed.

Tech  ·  21 December 2020
Privacy

Why Ledger Kept All That Customer Data in the First Place

Sunday’s dump of customer emails and addresses serves as a sobering reminder that even a maker of hardware crypto wallets can become a data honeypot.

Business  ·  21 December 2020
Privacy

The Pandemic Turbocharged Online Privacy Concerns

End-to-end encryption was never more important than this year. In 2021, battles over the future of online privacy – and therefore the nature of the internet itself – will come to head.

People  ·  19 December 2020
Surveillance

The Year We Learned the Rewards and Risks of Smart Devices

Moving into 2021, smart devices may be the most important battleground for data ownership and personal privacy.

Tech  ·  17 December 2020
DeFi

Secret Network Launches Bridge to Bring Transactional Privacy to Ethereum

The bridge will also give users access to Secret DeFi, privacy-preserving decentralized finance apps built on the Secret Network.

Tech  ·  15 December 2020
Regulation

FinCEN Encourages Banks to Share Customer Information With Each Other

The guidance is apt to chafe privacy advocates, inside and outside the crypto space, who are already uneasy about the honeypot that FinCEN’s suspicious activity report database has become.

Policy & regulation  ·  11 December 2020
Blockchain Applications

World Economic Forum Wants to Standardize Ethical Data Collection

The World Economic Forum wants to create guidelines for data storage and distribution, in hopes of making it easier for researchers and governments to make informed decisions.

News  ·  10 December 2020
Bitcoin

First CoinSwap Test Could Herald an Era of Stronger Bitcoin Privacy

"A big day for bitcoin privacy" said developer Chris Belcher as he announced a test transaction implementing a promising privacy technology invented years ago

Tech  ·  9 December 2020
Privacy

Blockchain-Based Immunity Passports Don’t Resolve Core Privacy Issues: Report

Proposals for immunity or vaccine passes have resurfaced with promising news about vaccines, but the web standards they’re based on contain flaws.

Tech  ·  7 December 2020