#Privacy and Personal Data

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ForkLog 26 11.09.2020

IRS announces bounty for defeating Monero privacy

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will pay a contractor $625,000 to help track transactions in the Monero cryptocurrency network, bypassing technologies that protect user anonymity.

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ForkLog 38 07.09.2020

Monero unveils Triptych algorithm to protect transaction anonymity

Last week, analytics firm CipherTrace reported the creation of a tool for monitoring Monero transactions. In response, the Monero team published a description of the new algorithmic innovation named Triptych. The development promises even greater data protection through obfuscation of the information CipherTrace uses.

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ForkLog 6 03.09.2020

CoinMetrics analysts note tepid interest in private transactions among the crypto community

Market participants show little regard for transaction privacy, despite the availability of privacy tools and private cryptocurrencies. This is according to CoinMetrics' latest report.

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ForkLog 11 02.09.2020

Opinion: Russia’s mediation in payment systems threatens transaction privacy

The public organization "Business Russia" proposed to the government to legally enshrine a rule obliging international payment systems to process Russians' transactions for purchases on foreign sites through Russian gateways. This is reported by Kommersant.

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ForkLog 37 31.08.2020

CipherTrace unveils Monero transaction-tracing tool

CipherTrace has unveiled the first-of-its-kind tool for tracing Monero (XMR) transaction flows, according to Cointelegraph.

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ForkLog 6 28.08.2020

Study: Data leaks caused by employees rise 47% in the first half of 2020

In the first six months of 2020, the number of data leaks from Russian companies caused by employees rose by almost half compared with the same period last year. This is according to a study by KROK, as Kommersant reports.

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ForkLog 35 27.08.2020

Personal data of Joom and Utair customers leaked online

The Bank of Russia’s FinCERT and the Visa payment system alerted banks to a data breach affecting 55,000 banking clients’ records, RBC reported, citing sources familiar with the situation.

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ForkLog 8 25.08.2020

Data on thousands of Bitcoin traders posted on the dark web

A hacker stole the personal data of users of the CryptoTrader.Tax service, designed for tax accounting when trading digital currencies. CoinDesk reports.

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ForkLog 111 24.08.2020

Australian exchanges drop Monero and other anonymous cryptocurrencies from listings

Privacy-focused coins such as Monero and ZCash have fallen out of favour with several Australian cryptocurrency exchanges.

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ForkLog 14 24.08.2020

Moscow authorities could stream data from city CCTV cameras to the public.

Moscow authorities may stream information from the city’s surveillance cameras into the public domain and sell it, according to Kommersant, in one of the contracts for installing cameras.

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ForkLog 26 19.08.2020

RosKomSvoboda calls for a moratorium on Moscow’s facial-recognition system

RosKomSvoboda has filed or prepared a lawsuit against Moscow’s police and the Department of Information Technologies, seeking to impose a moratorium on facial-recognition technologies until adequate legal safeguards against abuse are in place, according to the RosKomSvoboda website.

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ForkLog 18 06.08.2020

Study: Bitcoin Remains the Most Popular Darknet Cryptocurrency

The Block analysts studied the payment options on darknet markets. It turned out that after Bitcoin, the most popular cryptocurrencies are Monero (XMR) and Litecoin (LTC).

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