Fabio Panetta, a European Central Bank executive board member. Argued that a digital euro offers better privacy protections than privately issued stablecoins. Panetta chastised private companies’ profit motives. Stating that it is in their commercial interests to collect massive amounts of data on their users. The board member told the Financial Times, “We are not […]
Yesterday (on March 16), Brave Browser filed a formal complaint against Google with the lead General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enforcer in Europe. In a February interview, Dr. Johnny Ryan, Brave’s chief policy and industry relations officer, explained that Google is abusing its power by sharing user data collected by dozens of its distinct services, […]
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 Tawainese manufacturer’s Exodus 1 phones, which also have the ability to run nodes. The Hub provides 5G connectivity […]
While some global crypto exchanges move to expand Know Your Customer (KYC) rules, some major rivals claim that crypto platforms don’t need KYC at all. Digitex, a Seychelles-based crypto derivatives exchange, will start removing KYC identification this week in response to a major user data leakage that happened last month. Digitex will have no KYC […]
The decade’s rival to every popular browser like Google & Firefox, Brave Browser is now having an upgraded functionality. With the new update, it automatically redirects users to check out archived versions of pages that were earlier removed from the web. With immediate effect from Feb 25, users of the Brave Browser can instantly access […]
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 the test involved customer data. The controversial software has been the subject of intense scrutiny since a New York […]
As the new decade unreels, a new wave of disruption seems to be coming to the shores of the global financial system. That wave is called decentralized finance protocols. Decentralized Finance, or DeFi, simply refers to financial software that is built on the blockchain to make it easy for anyone to piece together digital assets […]
The team behind Brave Browser thinks that Google has an unfair competitive advantage due to its massive trove of user data. In a submission filed with the UK’s consumer protection agency, Brave argued that the country’s failure to enforce European data protection laws gives Google an unfair advantage. Brave Browser’s stance In an interview with […]
The Monero Research Lab (MRL) releases Triptych on the 6th of January proposing trustless logarithmic-size ring signatures. As Monero’s core anonymity mechanism, research aimed at decreasing their size could improve the coin’s privacy significantly. Monero (XMR) is a privacy coin that uses several distinct mechanisms to obfuscate parts of a transaction. The primary line of […]