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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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Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and Spacex, said that remote work was no longer acceptable for Tesla workers in May. According to Qatalog and GitLab, remote workers spend extra time weekly trying to prove they are online and working to their employers. But metaverse environments, a futuristic approach to remote
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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission seems willing to approve a spot ETF if adequate surveillance measures are in place.A footnote in a recent letter said as much, saying that it would overcome concerns about investor protection.The SEC is stubborn in its demands for investor protection and wants more
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The Binance crypto exchange has tapped regulators from the Financial Conduct Authority and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority as it looks to further its global compliance efforts. Source
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U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has introduced legislation to prohibit the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) directly to individuals and competing with the private sector. The senator from Texas warned that not only would this CBDC model centralize financial information, leaving it vulnerable to attack, but
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A U.S. senator has warned about China’s central bank digital currency. “Analysts have raised the eCNY’s potential to subvert U.S. sanctions, facilitate illicit money flows, enhance China’s surveillance capabilities, and provide Beijing with ‘first mover’ advantages,” the senator informed Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. U.S. Senator Warns About the Threat From China’s
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Before U.S. President Joe Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law in November, many groups spoke out against a provision that broadens the tax code’s definition of “broker.” But there is another hidden cryptocurrency provision in this new law that amends part of the tax code in
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As a year of massive blockchain industry growth and cryptocurrency adoption breakthroughs approaches its final month, many in this space remain reluctant to join in on the celebration — and for good reason. Many of cryptocurrency’s leading developers, investors, and pundits have spent the past three years lamenting that the plight
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The majority of American people are not “domestic terrorists,” yet we’re all (potentially) treated as such. The Patriot Act was grafted onto the preexisting Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (better known as FISA), which was passed in 1978 to help the government gather foreign intelligence and investigate international terrorism. It applied
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Republicans, it must be said, are also deeply culpable in this travesty, though they have, as usual, outmaneuvered and outsmarted the blundering, out-of-touch Dems into taking the brunt of the anger. It was the Republicans, remember, who rejected a provision in an earlier version of the bill that would have
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