We looked into text pests and here’s what we found
Emily Keaney is the ICO's Deputy Commissioner for Regulatory Policy,
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One in three young people falling prey to ‘text pests‘ as ICO calls for victims to come forward
Research commissioned by the ICO reveals that 29% of 18-34-year-olds received unwanted contact after giving their personal information to a business. 66% of the public believes it is not morally right to use personal details given for business purposes
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TikTok launches text posts feature to rival Twitter and Threads
Social media giant TikTok announced a feature launch aimed at dethroning Twitter (recently rebranded to X) as the go-to text-based social media platform.Just 20 days after Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta launched Threads to rival X, TikTok joined the race by allowing TikTokers to create and post text-based content. The new feature
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The European Union’s Crypto Tax Plans Include Non-Fungible Tokens, Foreign Companies, Draft Text Shows
The bill, dated May 5, closely matches proposals made by the European Commission in December 2022, as part of a bid to stop EU residents stashing crypto abroad to hide it from the taxman. The commission would have to set up a register of crypto asset operators’ by December 2025,
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Bitcoin Ordinals Surge to 3M Inscriptions, but Most Are Just Text
Over $8 million in fees have been paid to the network by inscription creators since their inception. Source
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European Banks Must Fully Cover Crypto Holdings With Capital, Draft Text Says
The amendments to the package, which is designed to ensure that traditional institutions issue enough capital to sustain lending levels, are set to be voted on by EU Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs on Tuesday. The text seen by CryptoX asks the European Commission to propose a bill
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EU Seals Text of Landmark Crypto Law MiCA, Fund Transfer Rules
At a Wednesday meeting, diplomats, representing the bloc's member governments in the EU's Council, signed off on the text of laws which were the subject of a political deals struck in June, apparently without further discussion, a source briefed on the talks told CryptoX. Source
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EU Finalizes Legal Text for Landmark Crypto Regulations Under MiCA
A leaked draft of the text, reviewed by CryptoX, shows the rules could apply to fractionalized NFTs. Source
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EU’s MiCA Crypto Law Text Ready Within 6 Weeks, Lead Lawmaker Says
Lawmakers and governments had reached agreement on the main outline of the legislation, which requires crypto asset providers to register with regulators in to offer services across the bloc, on June 30. But in the absence of a final legal text there is still considerable uncertainty on the law's finer
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SMS service allows sending BTC with a text
An innovation using the cellular network (GSM) could onboard millions of Bitcoin (BTC) users previously unreachable by the internet-dependent Bitcoin protocol. Built by South African developer Kgothatso Ngako, the new SMS-based service is named Machankura, a slang South African word for money.KG, as he’s known to his friends, spoke to Cointelegraph
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