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Nonprofit ethics group Campaign for Accountability (CfA) sent a letter to U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown on Nov. 9 to present them with information on the alleged use of cryptocurrency in money laundering. The letter discussed the Tron blockchain and stablecoin issuer Circle in particular.In the letter signed
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United States-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase’s latest push advocating for crypto holders to “speak directly to lawmakers” featured a House of Representatives member who previously acknowledged 11 ethics violations.As of Aug. 15, more than 54,000 individuals had signed on to Coinbase’s "Stand with Crypto Alliance" in an effort to engage with
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In recent years emerging technologies have been pervasive in many major industries around the world. Whether it’s blockchain used to help combat climate change or artificial intelligence (AI) projected to drive economic growth.At the Metaverse Entertainment Worlds (MEWS) conference in Monaco, Cointelegraph sat down with Dr. Stephen Castell to discuss
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The metaverse has the potential to be the next frontier of human interaction, as evidenced by the amount of activity that continues to pour into the space.It’s not just game developers pushing digital worlds but entire countries are setting up metaverse development funds. Major automotive firms, such as Nissan, are
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Web3’s pervasiveness into mainstream industries has begun to raise questions about the ethics needed to operate in the space. During the second day of Paris Blockchain Week (PBW) 2023, a group of professionals from the ecosystem took the Venus de Milo stage to discuss the “Ethics of Web3.”The panel kicked
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2022 was a rather challenging year for the crypto sector, and the prevalence of Ponzi schemes, decentralized finance scams, nonfungible token rug pulls and questionable centralized exchange bookkeeping put the issue of ethics in the space on blast. Of course, the negative news of last year wasn’t an outlier or a
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The metaverse, a virtual environment that simulates reality, offers complex moral dilemmas regarding privacy, ownership and control. These consist of:Privacy: Who has access to and how is personal information used within the metaverse?Ownership: Who owns the digital assets and real estate in the metaverse, and what rights do they have
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That, however, may be a challenge, Graham said, because AI-generated content such as deepfakes could be crossing an ethical line. Deepfakes are a form of manipulated media that can make anyone appear to be doing or saying anything – for instance, Tom Cruise, who was depicted by a person digitally
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When the United States Office of Government Ethics (OGE) released its Legal Advisory 22-04 on July 5, most attention was given to its conclusion that federal employees who own any amount of cryptocurrency or stablecoins whatsoever may not participate in regulation and policymaking that concerns crypto. The legal advisory (LA)
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A legal advisory notice issued by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) on Tuesday declared that the de minimis exemption – which, when applied to a security, would allow the owner of an amount below a certain threshold to work on policy related to that security – doesn’t apply
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