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Cryptocurrency

Teen who hacked Twitter accounts of Biden, Obama, Musk, Bezos and more is sentenced to 3 years in prison

Posted on Mar 22, 2021 by Chris Miller

Graham Ivan Clark, age 18 was sentenced to three years in prison followed by three years of probation after pleading guilty to hacking into high-profile Twitter accounts when he was…

Categories: Cryptocurrency

Congressional hearing investigates role of cryptocurrencies in domestic terrorism financing

Posted on Mar 2, 2021 by Caleb Chen

A recent Congressional hearing held by the Subcommittee on National Security, International Development, and Monetary Policy sought to examine the use of cryptocurrencies in financing domestic terrorism such as the…

Categories: Cryptocurrency, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Is this the future of Covid-19 vaccine passports: open source and based on the Ethereum blockchain?

Posted on Mar 2, 2021 by Glyn Moody

It was only last week that Privacy News Online wrote about introducing vaccine passports in order to provide additional freedoms to those who have received one of the Covid-19 vaccines.…

Categories: Cryptocurrency, Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments

Proposed FinCEN regulation would create financial surveillance net for cryptocurrency transactions

Posted on Dec 23, 2020 by Caleb Chen

On December 18th, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) released a proposed regulation seeking to increase financial surveillance of cryptocurrency transactions. Note that the introduction date and…

Categories: Cryptocurrency, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

US Court rules that cryptocurrency exchanges must give up your private financial data

Posted on Jul 23, 2020 by Caleb Chen

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that. The ruling came down in the case of U.S. v. Gratowski and sets the precedent that law enforcement…

Categories: Cryptocurrency, General Privacy News, Governments

Facebook reversed cryptocurrency ad policy ahead of Libra announcement

Posted on Jan 6, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Facebook, the social media platform used by billions, had banned cryptocurrency related ads for a year and a half starting in January of 2018. During this time period, Facebook’s ad…

Categories: Cryptocurrency, General Privacy News, Social Media

Private Internet Access adds BEAM to its list of anonymous payment methods

Posted on Jul 22, 2019 by Chris Miller

Private Internet Access now accepts anonymous payments through BEAM, providing our users with yet another way to protect their privacy and anonymity when signing up for our service. What is…

Categories: Announcements, Cryptocurrency, General Privacy News

Why Facebook’s new Libra cryptocurrency will be a privacy disaster

Posted on Jul 5, 2019 by Glyn Moody

Facebook has been appearing on this blog with increasing frequency. In one way, that's natural. A social network, by definition, is about people and their personal information, and so is…

Categories: Cryptocurrency, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media

How much is good online security worth to you? How about $100,000?

Posted on May 31, 2019 by Glyn Moody

Readers of this blog know that a VPN is an indispensable tool for today's digital world. VPNs address a key part of the challenge of staying safe online. They protect…

Categories: Cryptocurrency, Cybersecurity, General Privacy News

Grin and BEAM: Two Groundbreaking Private Cryptocurrencies Just Went Live

Posted on Jan 18, 2019 by Ben Brown

I’ve written here in the past about how bitcoin is not as anonymous as you think. Despite its reputation, bitcoin transactions are actually recorded openly and publicly. I’ve also introduced…

Categories: Cryptocurrency, General Privacy News
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