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Obscuring sensitive user data from artificial intelligence will become increasingly necessary as AI improves, Shielded CEO Eran Barak said.
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Privacy News
Privacy, as defined by privacy laws, encompasses the fundamental right to keep one’s personal information and activities confidential and secure. In the digital age, privacy laws are designed to protect individuals from unauthorized access, data breaches, and the misuse of their personal data by governments, organizations or individuals.
Contrary to popular belief, Bitcoin and many other cryptocurrencies are not entirely private. In fact, they operate on public blockchains, where transaction details, such as sender and receiver addresses and amounts, are publicly accessible. This transparency ensures the integrity of the transaction history and prevents double-spending, a critical aspect of cryptocurrency technology. Financial regulations often require transparency to ensure compliance with Anti-Money Laundering and Know Your Customer laws.
In the digital realm, privacy coins address the need for financial privacy. They empower users to conduct transactions without exposing their financial history to the public, offering a level of confidentiality akin to traditional cash transactions. This privacy is crucial for individuals living in regions with oppressive regimes, protecting them from potential persecution.
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Maelstrom has awarded Bitcoin developer Ben Allen a $100,000 grant to improve Payjoin, a privacy-focused transaction method that could boost Bitcoin scalability.
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US officials are reportedly investigating a data breach that caused many social engineering attacks against Coinbase users and prompted a slew of lawsuits.
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Buterin warns of the risks of centralized RPC providers and proposes a new node design to ensure trustless, censorship-resistant access to Ethereum as the network scales.
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Details associated with Sequoia Capital partner Roelof Botha’s Coinbase account were reportedly compromised in an attack affecting “less than 1%” of the exchange’s monthly users.
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OpenAI’s World project is coming to the US, where a state-by-state approach to privacy could complicate user protections.
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Polyhedra co-founder Tiancheng Xie discusses why zero-knowledge proofs are key to trustworthy AI and how new bootcamps are training the engineers who’ll build it.
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Security should be transparent, auditable, and accessible to everyone building in this space, a Safeheron spokesperson told Coinpectra.
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Solana devs and validators have worked together to patch up a critical security issue, but this speedy fix didn’t come without criticism over the network’s centralization.
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Yuga Labs, Magic Eden, Venice.ai and more are supporting a new open-source framework so that AI agents can operate autonomously across networks.
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Europe will ban anonymous crypto accounts and privacy coins starting in 2027 under sweeping new AML regulations targeting service providers and token anonymity.
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The case stems from the US Internal Revenue Service's attempt to obtain Coinbase users' transaction data in 2016.
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Vitalik Buterin outlined his 2025 Ethereum development priorities, including single-slot finality, statelessness, enhanced privacy and decentralized infrastructure.
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The order issued in the High Court of Karnataka stemmed from a complaint alleging that employees of an Indian design firm received offensive emails through Proton Mail.
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Miden, a zk-powered blockchain spun out of Polygon Labs, raised $25 million led by a16z to scale edge execution and support institutional blockchain adoption.
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