Bailey Reutzel reports: Bitcoin wallet providers haven’t focused on increasing privacy to promote consumer financial independence and safety over the last year, according to the Open Bitcoin Privacy Project’s (OBPP) second edition survey. As no provider received a score of more than 50 out of 100, the OBPP suggests privacy work has stagnated within the bitcoin wallet…
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Leaked! Details Of The New Congressional Commission To Take On The Encryption Issue
Mike Masnick has the scoop on TechDirt, along with the draft bill and some related documents. Mike writes, in part: So, should this bill pass, the Commission would have 16 members, with the Republicans and Democrats each appointing eight, and that eight that each party appoints would be one person from each of the following…
Article: Singling Out People Without Knowing Their Names – Behavioural Targeting, Pseudonymous Data, and the New Data Protection Regulation
Zuiderveen Borgesius, Frederik J., Singling Out People Without Knowing Their Names – Behavioural Targeting, Pseudonymous Data, and the New Data Protection Regulation (February 16, 2016). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2733115 Abstract: Information about millions of people is collected for behavioural targeting, a type of marketing that involves tracking people’s online behaviour for targeted advertising. It is…
Fearing Americans are tiring of the war on terror, DHS creates a “new breed of terrorism”
Joe Cadillic writes: According to Courthouse News (CN) article, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson warned law enforcement of a new breed of terrorism that sees people “self-radicalize.” “As I have said many times, we are in a new phase of the global terrorist threat, requiring a whole new type of response,” Johnson said. “We have moved from a world of terrorist-directed…