#Privacy and Personal Data

Latest news and articles on privacy: blockchain and cryptography solutions, anonymous cryptocurrencies, decentralized user identification tools, and Web3.

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ForkLog 23 22.04.2021

In One Click: Speed Up, Cancel and Mix Bitcoin Transactions in Blender Wallet

Together with the Blender Wallet cryptocurrency wallet, we explain how to cancel and speed up a Bitcoin transaction in one click, and test coin mixing in the built-in Blender.io service.

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ForkLog 31 20.04.2021

Privacy-focused Aleo project raises $28 million from a16z, Galaxy Digital and Polychain Capital

Aleo, a platform for building decentralised applications with enhanced privacy, has raised $28 million from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and other leading venture capital firms.

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ForkLog 15 20.04.2021

Public exposure of Trello data from thousands of Russian companies

Data from nearly a million Trello boards, including confidential information, were exposed online.

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ForkLog 21 25.03.2021

Roskomnadzor proposes passport details for social-media registrations

As part of amendments to the Personal Data Law, Roskomnadzor proposed that new users of social networks and messaging apps provide their passport number, place of residence, phone number, and email address, according to the draft order.

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ForkLog 16 23.03.2021

Mina Protocol launches privacy-focused blockchain built on zk-SNARKs

The Mina Protocol project launched a privacy-focused blockchain based on zero-knowledge proofs.

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ForkLog 19 23.03.2021

PBOC rules out fully anonymous CBDCs

Fully anonymous national digital currencies do not align with the consensus of the world's leading central banks. Mu Changchun, director of the CBDC Institute at the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), said, The Block reports.

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ForkLog 27 18.03.2021

Beeple NFT buyer reveals identity

The NFT buyer known as Metakovan has revealed his identity: Vignesh Sundaresan.

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ForkLog 18 18.03.2021

Lawyer says data transfers to Roskomnadzor may be a masked attempt to bypass communications secrecy

Russian authorities want to require telecom operators to provide Roskomnadzor (RKN) with subscribers' personal data, and to force businesses to forward anonymised data about Russians to the state at no cost.

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ForkLog 19 16.03.2021

Brian Brooks Joins Board of Spring Labs Startup

Former head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) within the U.S. Treasury, Brian Brooks, became an independent member of the board of Spring Labs, which develops data-protection solutions.

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ForkLog 38 12.03.2021

Telegram began removing bots that scrape users’ data following a Roskomnadzor order

The messaging app Telegram has begun blocking popular bots used to obtain users’ personal data.

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ForkLog 45 04.03.2021

Brave to launch private search engine.

The privacy-focused Brave browser plans to launch its own search engine for desktop and mobile.

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ForkLog 16 03.03.2021

Bitcoin developers to receive $70,000 grants from the Human Rights Foundation

The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) has announced the allocation of $70,000 from its developers support fund for work on enhancing Bitcoin's resilience, privacy and decentralisation.

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