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No civil protection for crypto in China, $300K to list coins in Hong Kong? Asia Express – Cointelegraph Magazine

Our weekly roundup of news from East Asia curates the industry’s most important developments. Hot week for Hong Kong exchanges  Hashkey Exchange — one of the first regulated crypto exchanges in Hong Kong — has announced insurance coverage for clients

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Status’ co-founder shares insights on strengthening civil liberties with politically neutral networks

Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied Jarrad Hope, the co-founder of open source community Status, delivered a thought-provoking speech at the ETHBarcelona conference, highlighting the urgent need to strengthen civil liberties through politically neutral networks. A prominent advocate for privacy and co-founder of

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Information Commissioner John Edwards’ opening remarks at the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), delivered on 23 May 2023.

Kia ora kotou katoa. That’s a greeting in te reo Maori, the Maori language of my homeland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Thank you for the kind invitation from the Chair to speak before this Committee. I am pleased to be here as the UK’s regulator for data protection. My principal reason for being here is

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US CFTC Penalizes Bitcoin Pool Operator $3.4 Billion In Largest Civil Fraud Victory

Summary: South Africa-based Cornelius Johannes Steynberg was fined $3.4 billion for running an unregistered Bitcoin commodity pool operation, the CFTC announced in a Thursday statement.Steynberg founded Mirror Trading International (MTI), a BTC pool operator that illegally accepted $1.7 billion from 23,000 U.S. citizens while operating out of SA.The news marks

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SEC, CFTC press civil charges against former FTX exec Singh parallel to criminal case

Civil charges were announced against former FTX director of engineering Nishad Singh on Feb. 28, the same day he entered a guilty plea to three counts of criminal fraud in Manhattan district court. Both the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) are

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Elizabeth Warren’s New Financial Surveillance Bill Is a Disaster for Privacy and Civil Liberties

In introducing the bill, Sen. Warren used the refrain that privacy-enhancing technology facilitates crime. This is wrong, and it’s exactly the line of reasoning we hear from critics of end-to-end encryption and Tor (which enables anonymous web browsing). That a technology could be used to violate the law does not

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