Surveillance


Opinion

Crypto’s Latest Privacy Battle

The SEC's 'CAT' is out of the bag. What will be the the largest database of securities transactions ever represents a massive step towards unchecked government surveillance, crypto law experts Marisa Coppel and Amanda Tuminelli write.

The Consolidated Audit Trail should not be allowed to quietly become law, Marisa Coppel and Amanda Tuminelli argue. (Horatio Henry Couldery/Wikimedia Commons)

Opinion

Fatemeh Fannizadeh on Crypto Law, Switzerland and How KYC Is Failing

Fannizadeh, a Swiss lawyer and strategic advisor specializing in the crypto industry, is a speaker at this year’s Consensus festival, May 29-31, in Austin, Texas.

(Fatemeh Fannizadeh)

Opinion

Warren’s Crypto Bill Is Likely Unconstitutional. It’s Also Unlikely to Pass

Democratic lawmakers signed on to sponsor the Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act. The bill is bad for crypto in the U.S., even if it never gets through Congress.

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) (Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Opinion

Unraveling the Dark Side of Crypto

Terrorist financing expert Evan Kohlmann argues on-chain intelligence-gathering should not be relegated to telling us only after the fact about avoidable risks.

Cloudburst CEO Evan Kohlmann argues current investigatory techniques may be over-reliant on blockchain data, (Evan Kohlmann, modified by CoinDesk)

Opinion

Transparency for the Whales, Privacy for the Plebs

Identifying the owners of crypto wallets may level the playing field for retail traders. But if taken too far it could be weaponized against the weak.

Color lithographic illustration (by Currier & Ives) titled 'Little White Kitties, Fishing' shows two kittens as they peer into a fishbowl, one dipping its paw in the water where two, orange-colored fish swim, 1871. (Photo by Library of Congress/Interim Archives/Getty Images)

Opinion

UN Cybercrime Treaty Could Lead to Sweeping Surveillance of Crypto Worldwide

The treaty’s current draft language would require crypto companies to implement intrusive mass surveillance systems, turning over financial information to governments automatically, say Marta Belcher and Kurt Opsahl of the Filecoin Foundation.

(Doug Armand/CoinDesk)

Opinion

Privacy Is a Human Right – and the 118th Congress Must Defend It

U.S. lawmakers must prevent the further erosion of our privacy rights by defending our right to use privacy-preserving tech and passing laws against unreasonable and constant digital surveillance.

U.S. lawmakers must prevent the further erosion of our privacy rights by defending  privacy-preserving tech and passing laws against unreasonable and constant digital surveillance. (Chris Yang, Unsplash)

Opinion

Against CBDCs and the Politicization of Money

No one should understate the threat CBDCs pose to individual sovereignty, the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Paul H. Jossey writes.

(Thomas Winz/Getty Images)

Opinion

Lunarpunks, Privacy and the New Encryption Guerillas

A growing group of cryptography experts are using tools to carve "dark" spaces out of the surveilled web. This article is a preview of Rachel-Rose O'Leary's talk on the 'Big Ideas' stage at Consensus.

(Sanni Sahil/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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