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As the world becomes increasingly connected through digital platforms, preserving online privacy has become more critical than ever. For individuals engaged in the world of crypto, decentralized finance (DeFi) and blockchain — where financial transactions and personal data are often involved — safeguarding privacy is of utmost importance. This article offers
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Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied Binance has partnered with the KYC provider known as Liquid to reenter the Japanese market. Liquid offers a facial authentication tool for KYC purposes. It uses an AI-based image processing capability. It enables identity verifications that
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The controversial digital ID crypto project Worldcoin launched on July 24 after three years of development. The project was co-founded by Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI — the company behind the popular artificial intelligence (AI)-based chatbot ChatGPT. Worldcoin made headlines right after its announcement in June 2021, as it promised
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But a couple days later, traversing security at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, I found myself “living the questions,” as the poet Rainer Maria Rilke advised. I experienced a minimal-information transaction first-hand, in a way that had nothing to do with bitcoin – and everything to do with bad decisions I made
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This week, government agencies intensified their enforcement actions against fraudulent crypto activities, responding to a rise in hacking incidents, scams, and fraud. One notable case involved the hacking of CoinsPaid. Alongside these developments, regulatory initiatives remained in focus, with the passage of a pro-crypto bill in the US Congress garnering attention. Crypto
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Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied The U.K. Parliament is currently reviewing the Online Safety Bill (OSB) as a means of internet regulation. If approved, the government would be authorized to mandate messaging companies to create backdoors and require detailed reports of users’ online
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Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied The Worldcoin (WLD) project, which has gained notoriety due to its controversial iris-scanning biometrics, is currently being investigated by France’s data privacy regulatory agency. The Commission Nationale de I’informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), an agency in France
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The French National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (CNIL), France’s data protection agency, is questioning the legality of Worldcoin's data collection methods, according to a Reuters report. In an email to Reuters on July 28, CNIL said:“The legality of this collection seems questionable, as do the conditions for storing biometric data.”CNIL
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"The legality of this [data] collection seems questionable, as do the conditions for preservation of biometric data," a CNIL spokesperson said in a written statement, referring to Worldcoin's practise of scanning retinas to ensure that no single person can claim crypto rewards twice. Original Source
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Decentralized applications could tap into improved privacy features as blockchain firm Oasis launches its confidential EVM-compatible blockchain Sapphire.Sapphire and the Oasis Privacy Layer (OPL) are now live, allowing existing decentralized applications (DApp) on Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) networks to make use of the blockchain’s privacy-first features without having to carry
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