Privacy

Pavel Durov: ‘Telegram Has Never Disclosed a Single Byte of Private Messages’

Pavel Durov: ‘Telegram Has Never Disclosed a Single Byte of Private Messages’

Durov stated that, under the jurisdiction of the European Union Digital Services Act, Telegram would only provide IP addresses and phone numbers of suspected criminals. This affirmation came amid widespread criticism of France’s actions against encryption. Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Declares Telegram Never Delivered Message Data to Authorities Telegram, the cryptocurrency messaging protocol standard by […]

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Telegram vows to exit markets over encryption backdoor demands

Telegram vows to exit markets over encryption backdoor demands

Telegram founder Pavel Durov has criticized the French government for attempting to ban encryption, calling it a serious threat to digital privacy. In an April 21 statement on X, Durov revealed that French lawmakers nearly passed a bill last month that would have forced messaging apps to include backdoors that would give law enforcement agencies

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Blockchain privacy is a right, not a criminal tool

Blockchain privacy is a right, not a criminal tool

The following is a guest post and opinion of Matthew Niemerg, Co-Founder of the Aleph Zero. I won’t admit to being a fan of much of Europe’s political direction (or destination) at the moment. News recently that Apple is partly removing end-to-end encryption from its UK customers after the UK government pressure under their Online

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European Blockchain Sandbox Selects Web3 Companies for Third Cohort, Including Privado ID

European Blockchain Sandbox Selects Web3 Companies for Third Cohort, Including Privado ID

The European Blockchain Sandbox has announced the third cohort of its dialogues, including a number of Web3, tokenization, decentralization, RWAs, and other blockchain-related projects. According to the announcement, the selection team was led by blockchain experts from strategy consultancy Warren Brandeis. In total, the initiative has chosen twenty participants. These include Privado ID and Privately,

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Crypto Privacy Legalized? Tornado Cash and Samourai Cases Suggest Uncertainty Remains

Crypto Privacy Legalized? Tornado Cash and Samourai Cases Suggest Uncertainty Remains

Bitcoin Magazine Crypto Privacy Legalized? Tornado Cash and Samourai Cases Suggest Uncertainty Remains Last week, Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Todd Blanche sent a memo to employees of the Department of Justice, directing the agency to stop prosecuting mixers, exchanges, and “offline wallets” for the criminal conduct of their users. Understandably, the community broke out in

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Vitalik Buterin Calls for Stronger Privacy in Web3, Citing Rising Data Risks

Vitalik Buterin Calls for Stronger Privacy in Web3, Citing Rising Data Risks

Key Takeaways: Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin argued that privacy must become a built-in feature of decentralized systems to protect users from growing surveillance threats. He pointed to advanced cryptographic tools like ZK-proofs and homomorphic encryption as essential to protecting data. His recent roadmap proposes wallet-level and network-level privacy features for Ethereum without altering its Layer-1 consensus.

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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin calls for stronger privacy protections amid AI centralization concerns

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin calls for stronger privacy protections amid AI centralization concerns

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has renewed calls for stronger privacy protections across emerging crypto and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. In an April 14 blog post, Buterin argued that privacy is not just a personal right but a vital safeguard for decentralization, innovation, and freedom. He wrote: “Supporting privacy for everyone, and making the necessary tools

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Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Proposes a ‘Maximally Simple’ L1 Privacy Roadmap

Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Proposes a ‘Maximally Simple’ L1 Privacy Roadmap

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed a “maximally simple” Layer 1 (L1) privacy roadmap aimed at enhancing user privacy on the Ethereum network with minimal changes to its consensus mechanism. The roadmap outlines four key areas of focus: ensuring privacy for onchain payments, achieving partial anonymization of onchain activity within applications, securing privacy for reads

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Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin reveals roadmap to boost Layer-1 privacy

Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin reveals roadmap to boost Layer-1 privacy

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has outlined a streamlined roadmap to enhance Layer-1 privacy on the blockchain network. In a blog post on April 11, Buterin introduced a framework focused on improving user confidentiality without requiring significant changes to the network’s core infrastructure. The proposal targets four distinct areas of privacy, including making on-chain payments private,

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Former CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad On Bitcoin And Digital Asset Privacy

Former CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad On Bitcoin And Digital Asset Privacy

While attending the MIT Bitcoin Expo this past weekend, I was afforded the opportunity to sit down with Timothy Massad, Research Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and former Chairman of the U.S. Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).  Massad served as the head of the CFTC from 2014 to 2017,

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