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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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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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