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New App for COVID-19 Combines Blockchain With Web Inventor's Privacy Tech
29.4.2020
U.K. researchers are testing a COVID-19 proof-of-immunity app that combines blockchain with Tim Berners-Lee’s solid pod technology
Antonopoulos: Chainalysis Is Helping World’s Worst Dictators & Regimes
27.4.2020
Andreas Antonopoulos believes that companies like Chainalysis violate the civil rights of millions of individuals
The Incognito Project Will Give Ethereum DeFi Monero-Like Privacy
27.4.2020
The Incognito project wants to make every other coin as private as Monero and is already integrating with Ethereum DeFi
Is Liquid Sidechain a Path for Better Bitcoin Privacy?
26.4.2020
Although Bitcoin (BTC) first hit the mainstream as a sort of anonymous Internet currency that allowed people to order drugs via darknet markets like Silk Road, the reality is transactions made on the network are completely public. Indeed, the current level of privacy offered by Bitcoin and many...
Public Opinion Shifts on Big Tech and Privacy During Pandemic
24.4.2020
In good news for contact tracing, attitudes to big tech companies are softening. But the shift may not be good for "privacy tech."
For Contact Tracing That Preserves Privacy, Focus on Incentives
24.4.2020
Even the best technologies are useless if no one uses them, says our columnist. And that's especially true for contact tracing
After a Decade of Promises, Blockchain Still Fails to Deliver Privacy
24.4.2020
In over 10 years, blockchain went from the FBI’s nightmare to one of the easiest ways to track down criminals. So how private is it, exactly?
COVID-19 Tracing Apps Have to Go Viral to Work. That’s a Big Ask
24.4.2020
How do you make it so people actually want to download a contact tracing app?
Money Reimagined: A World Where Privacy and Saving Lives Can Coexist
24.4.2020
We don't need to trade our privacy for a better response to the COVID-19 crisis. We need to embrace the full power of cryptography
Bitcoin Messenger Explores Censorship Resistance During Coronavirus Crisis
23.4.2020
A new bitcoin privacy technology was born this week, using the Lightning Network and inspired by the politics of the COVID-19 crisis
LG’s IT Subsidiary Uses Facial Recognition Tech for Payments With Digital Currency
23.4.2020
LG CNS has implemented a facial recognition tech to enable its employees automatic payments with a digital currency
Road to Consensus: Harry Halpin Talks Holistic Privacy, Mixnets and COVID-19 (of Course)
23.4.2020
Harry Halpin, a speaker at Consensus: Distributed, talks about his lockdown, and how Crypto Twitter was right, for once
Immunity Passes Explained: Should We Worry About Privacy?
23.4.2020
Immunity passes could allow people who have had the virus to return to normal life. Here's how they work, and why we might worry
Managing Crowds as Virus Restrictions Ease Will Take GUTS
23.4.2020
A Dutch blockchain ticketing company has come up with a way for the public to return to safely return to public places
Russia May Lift Telegram Ban Due to Coronavirus Outbreak
23.4.2020
Russian officials have proposed terminating the Telegram ban in the country, highlighting that the app is used by state authorities to tackle COVID-19 pandemic
Privacy Altcoin Beam to Execute Second Hard Fork in June 2020
22.4.2020
Privacy-focused altcoin Beam will execute its second hard fork on June 28, upgrading the network’s PoW algorithm from BeamHash II to BeamHash III
The COVID-19 Global Pandemic Raises Serious Privacy Problems
22.4.2020
Fighting the global pandemic without sacrificing your personal private data: Is it possible?
CoinDesk Live: Understanding Our Digital Personas feat. Alex McDougall
21.4.2020
“If we don’t fix the data paradigm...we don’t really have free will,” says Alex McDougall of Bicameral Ventures
Researchers Surface Privacy Vulnerabilities in Bitcoin Lightning Network Payments
21.4.2020
Privacy holes in the Lightning Network, a bitcoin transaction settlement layer, are leaking payment information
European Contact Tracing Consortium Faces Wave of Defections Over Centralization Concerns
20.4.2020
Contact tracing researchers fear Europe could choose a centralized system that puts personal privacy at risk