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Tech
Privacy
Mass Surveillance Threatens Personal Privacy Amid Coronavirus
The extreme surveillance measures taken to address COVID-19 are not normal or inevitable.
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By Benjamin Powers
Mar 12, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. UTC
Mar 12, 2020
PrivacyChina TelecomOpinionSurveillanceCoronavirusCOVID-19
Tor Ekeland, interviewed by The Daily Dot radio's Nicole Powers in 2014.
Markets
Privacy
Clearview AI Lawyer Tor Ekeland Says Your Face Is Public Property
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.
Tor Ekeland, interviewed by The Daily Dot radio's Nicole Powers in 2014.
By Daniel Kuhn
Mar 6, 2020 at 4:03 a.m. UTC
Mar 6, 2020
PrivacySurveillanceTor EkelandClearview
Blockchain thinker Glen Weyl (center, gray blazer) speaks with other attendees of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting. (Photo by Leigh Cuen for CoinDesk)
Policy
Privacy
Notes From the WEF: The Coming Battle Between Surveilled and Private Money
Most Davos experts appear to agree that blockchain technology is best for data collection rather than self-sovereign finance.
Blockchain thinker Glen Weyl (center, gray blazer) speaks with other attendees of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting. (Photo by Leigh Cuen for CoinDesk)
By Leigh Cuen
Jan 22, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. UTC
Jan 22, 2020
PrivacyBlockchainWorld Economic ForumSurveillanceCBDCsWEF 2020Davos 2020
NSA
Markets
Crime
Snowden Leak Suggests NSA Is Extensively Tracking Bitcoin Users
The U.S. National Security Agency is reportedly aiming to track down users behind the bitcoin blockchain.
NSA
By Wolfie Zhao
Mar 21, 2018 at 3:40 a.m. UTC
Mar 21, 2018
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Tech
Crime
The Downside of Tracking Bitcoin on the Blockchain
Tracking funds on the blockchain may help catch crooks, but such snooping undermines one of the most important characteristics of money: Fungibility.
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By Marc Hochstein
Feb 7, 2018 at 5:00 a.m. UTC
Feb 7, 2018
CrimeCharles HoskinsonBitFuryAMLBitcoinRegulationZcashMoneroSurveillanceLegalBitcoin blockchainbusiness newsus-canada
eu
Markets
Research
EU Commits €5 Million to Fund Blockchain Surveillance Research
A group of government agencies, law enforcement groups and academic researchers are partnering on a new digital currency surveillance project.
eu
By Stan Higgins
Jun 2, 2017 at 3:30 p.m. UTC
Jun 2, 2017
ResearchRegulationEUNewsEuropean UnionSurveillance