Russia’s communications watchdog is calling on contractors to help it block or disrupt anonymous networks including The Onion Router and Telegram Open Network. The Russian communications watchdog has launched an offensive on censorship resistant platforms, including the Telegram Open Network (TON) and privacy browser Tor. Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and…
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Blockchain tech as the privacy keeper: How the distribution of metadata will help you to maintain privacy. It has been nearly seven years since Edward Snowden blew the whistle on highly classified global surveillance programs, inciting a national conversation about privacy in the digital age. One of these revelations was that the NSA had access…
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After ending his presidential bid last month, Andrew Yang wants to rewrite the rules of the economy with its new nonprofit Humanity Forward. Former presidential candidate and known cryptocurrency proponent Andrew Yang has announced a new initiative to protect privacy online. After ending his presidential bid last month, Yang has announced the creation of new…
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Vitalik Buterin says that currency digitization is inevitable and believes decentralized privacy currency would be more appealing to people than state-controlled digital currencies. With governments increasingly looking at launching their own digital currencies, you might worry that crypto just can’t compete with national financial infrastructures. Not so, says Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. Buterin spoke with…
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David Burkett, a developer working on Litecoin and Grin, has predicted that Litecoin will launch its MimbleWimble testnet before the end of summer. On March 1, David Burkett, a developer working on cryptocurrencies Grin (GRIN) and Litecoin (LTC), estimated that privacy protocol Mimblewimble will see a Litecoin testnet release before the end of summer. In…
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HTC has unveiled a new privacy focused 5G router that enables users to run a full Bitcoin node. Electronics giant HTC has announced a new privacy-focused portable 5G blockchain router that enables users to run a full Bitcoin node. Due to arrive by mid-year, the Exodus 5G Hub follows on from the success of the…
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Trustless zero-knowledge proof systems, known as zk-SNARKs, have the potential to become the leading technological solution for privacy protection. At a time when technology can be used as both a mechanism for privacy intrusions and a tool for protecting privacy, the prescient sentiment of cypherpunks in the 1990s of cryptography as the last defense against…
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Brave browser users can now instantly access archived content of “missing” web pages via automated Wayback Machine lookup. Brave, a major privacy-oriented rival of popular browsers like Google Chrome and Firefox, now automatically redirects users to check out archived versions of pages that were removed from the web. Starting from Feb. 25, Brave browser users…
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Human resources firm Randstad, which recently became a global leader in the sector, has chosen to further automate its workflow using a smart contracts-focused blockchain. Human resources firm Ranstad, which recently became global leader in the sector, has chosen to further automate its workflow using a smart contracts-focused blockchain. The firm’s 40,000 employees will be…
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Major U.S. crypto exchange #Coinbase was one of hundreds of companies discovered to be testing #Clearview facial recognition technology. Coinbase, the U.S. cryptocurrency exchange boasting over 20 million views per month and over 30 million total accounts, has tested Clearview AI facial recognition technology according to a BuzzFeed News report. However, Coinbase has denied that…
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