John Edwards' opening speech at DPPC 2022
Information Commissioner John Edwards' opening Data Protection Practitioners' Conference 2022 speech, delivered on 19th July 2022. Original Source
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John Edwards’ speech introducing ICO25
I wanted to start today with a story about the ICO’s work. On 31 May, we published a Commissioner’s Opinion. It set out changes we wanted to see to the data protection approaches of police forces, in relation to victims of rape and serious sexual assaults. It was, in many parts,
Read MoreUK Information Commissioner John Edwards’ speech at the UK Ambassador Residence in Brussels
Thank you, Ambassador, for those words of welcome. Kia ora kotou katoa. Welcome to you all and thank you so much for coming out. I have been the UK’s information Commissioner for nearly five months now and this is my first opportunity to address colleagues and stakeholders on continental soil. It is
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Calls Crypto ‘Transformative’ in Wide-Ranging Speech
Any potential CBDC design would have to address its impact on the financial system, ability to address financial crime and national security questions, privacy implications, ability to address macro policy and how it might interact with existing fiat currencies, stablecoins or other CBDCs, Yellen said. Source
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Treasury's Yellen to Deliver First Speech on Crypto in US Economy
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has scheduled her first speech devoted entirely to digital assets and their place in the U.S economy. The Thursday remarks are expected to track closely with the sentiments already expressed in President Joe Biden's recent executive order. Original Source
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If Money Is Speech, CBDCs Should Be Tools for Freedom
“These are new First Amendment waters we’re sailing in,” Benjamin Barr, a lawyer at Barr & Klein PLLC specializing in free speech rights, told CryptoX over email. It isn’t necessarily an easy fight, he noted. For decades, privacy advocates have fought to scale back or dismantle the Bank Secrecy Act
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Elon Musk Giving ‘Serious Thought’ to Creating Social Media Platform With Free Speech as Top Priority – Featured Bitcoin News
Tesla and Spacex CEO Elon Musk says that he is “giving serious thought to” creating a new social media platform with free speech as a top priority. “Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy,” the Tesla
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