Avi Mizrahi reports: Zcash is a new privacy-focused cryptocurrency that is getting a lot of positive feedback and coverage recently despite just being launched. Monero is believed to be one of the most in-demand untraceable CryptoNote cryptocurrencies. Providing anonymity and unlinkable encrypted transactions, Monero became one of the kind in Darknet, and its rates skyrocketed thrice as…
Category: Misc
California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Announces Proposed Regulations for the Collection of Data During Law Enforcement Stops
The following press release from AG Harris’s office was issued on Dec. 9: LOS ANGELES – Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced the proposed regulations for the collection of stop data that law enforcement agencies must report under California’s Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015, Assembly Bill (AB) 953. The proposed regulations are available…
Watch this video on the safety, cyber-security, and privacy of self-driving (and partially self-driving) vehicles
via Public Citizen: Click here or on the embedded video below to watch Prof. Christopher Yoo and federal transportation policy journalist Stephanie Beasley discuss the safety, cyber-security, and privacy of self-driving and other automated vehicles.
UK: Judge asked to extend ban on naming sadistic Edlington brothers to protect their human rights
This is not the first time I’ve covered an anonymity request like this, but I still find the situation disturbing on a number of levels. The Wakefield Express reports: A judge is being asked to give indefinite anonymity to two Yorkshire brothers who tortured two young boys in a bout of “prolonged, sadistic violence” when…