#Privacy and Personal Data

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ForkLog 79 28.10.2020

Zooko Wilcox: In four years Zcash has achieved great things, but we need a billion users

Exactly four years ago, on 28 October 2016, the launch of the Zcash mainnet (ZEC), a privacy-focused cryptocurrency, took place.

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ForkLog 88 27.10.2020

How Palantir Works: A Company Arming the Security Services with Mass-Surveillance Algorithms

One of the most enigmatic companies of our era. A secret software developer for the security services. A firm that knows everything about you. This is how various media described the American software company Palantir Technologies, which works in data analytics.

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ForkLog 10 26.10.2020

Report: 40% of users expect privacy to become more important post-pandemic

Users are unwilling to compromise on privacy amid the COVID-19 pandemic and want greater transparency from governments and private companies regarding the use of their data. The findings come from Cisco's report.

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ForkLog 14 23.10.2020

KuCoin hacker sent $5 million in Ethereum to Tornado Cash mixer

The KuCoin hacker used the Ethereum mixer Tornado Cash to obfuscate traces. The Block analyst Larry Cermak found that the attacker sent 11,520 ETH (~$4.8 million) to the service and, in batches of 100 ETH, mixed 2,800 ETH worth about $1.16 million.

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ForkLog 21 21.10.2020

ZCash upgrade set to coincide with first halving

The privacy-focused cryptocurrency ZCash is preparing for its first halving in its history. Activation is expected on November 18 on block #1,046,400.

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ForkLog 10 21.10.2020

Riccardo Spagni: cryptographers will always stay one step ahead of regulators

Regulators' attempts to trace transactions on the Monero network, the privacy-focused cryptocurrency, are doomed to fail, says its former lead maintainer Riccardo 'Fluffypony' Spagni.

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ForkLog 17 20.10.2020

FinCEN Imposes First-Ever Fine on Bitcoin Mixer

Larry Din Harmon, founder of the cryptocurrency-mixing service Helix and CEO of Coin Ninja, was fined $60 million at the request of FinCEN.

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ForkLog 15 18.10.2020

New Monero upgrade boosts transaction speed while shrinking data footprint

A new major update has been activated in Monero's privacy-focused network. It is named Oxygen Orion and ships as version 0.17.

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ForkLog 9 16.10.2020

How the Pandemic Is Killing Internet Freedom: A Freedom House Report

Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, internet freedom worldwide deteriorated sharply. Governments have seized the opportunity to tighten surveillance of citizens and curb the right to a free internet. The data come from Freedom House's report Freedom on the Net 2020.

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ForkLog 7 09.10.2020

Moscow authorities say data on remote workers will be anonymised, used only to assess passenger traffic

The data collected on Moscow-based employees who have shifted to remote work will be anonymised and used solely to assess passenger traffic, according to Dmitry Ivanov, deputy head of Moscow's Department of Information Technology, TASS reports.

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ForkLog 7 09.10.2020

US authorities flag risks associated with anonymous cryptocurrencies

The US Department of Justice regards cryptocurrencies as a challenge to law-enforcement, which, with the right approach, could become a useful tool for society. The conclusion is contained in the 71-page report by the Office of the Attorney General's cyber- and digital technologies working group.

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ForkLog 14 05.10.2020

Dash: a cryptocurrency for payments, not for privacy

Dash should no longer be viewed as one of the privacy-focused cryptocurrencies. Its best definition is as a means of payment, said in a comment to Cointelegraph by Fernando Gutierrez, marketing director at Dash Core Group.

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