Sam Altman’s World Halts Operations in Brazil: What’s Happening

February 13, 2025 Bitcoin.com

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World is pausing its operations in Brazil after an appeal to continue collecting citizens’ biometric data failed. The national watchdog ordered the project to cease exchanging crypto for this data, and World will need to pause its operations in order to adapt to this decision. World Pauses Operations in Brazil to Adapt to National Data […]

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Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev Walks Free

February 7, 2025 Bitcoin.com

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In a positive turn of events, the court released the 31-year-old developer and placed him under house arrest and electronic monitoring until his trial. Tornado Cash’s Alexey Pertsev Regains Freedom Following Court Decision After languishing in a Dutch jail for nine months, Alexey Pertsev, one of the developers of the cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash, was […]

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5 Arrested Trying to Purchase Biometric Data by Mimicking Sam Altman’s World Activities in Argentina

February 7, 2025 Bitcoin.com

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Authorities believe criminals might use this biometric data to create digital replicas, facilitating digital ID theft and fraud crimes by taking advantage of the popularity of Sam Altman’s World in Argentina. 5 Citizens Arrested in Argentina Purchasing Biometric Data Criminals are taking advantage of the popularity of Sam Altman’s World, the biometric proof-of-personhood protocol, to […]

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Nearly 3 Million Have Enrolled in the Russian Unified Biometric System

January 31, 2025 Bitcoin.com

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About 3 million citizens have registered their personal data on the Russian Unified Biometric System. Authorities state that the population is warming to the use of these technologies, as 80% of registrations occurred last year. Russian Unified Biometric System Gets Closer to 3 Million Users Registered The Russian state biometric data cache is getting larger. […]

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Brazilian Authorities Suspend Sam Altman’s World Rewards

January 27, 2025 Bitcoin.com

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The National Data Protection Authority (ANPD), Brazil’s data watchdog, has barred World, Sam Altman’s digital ID project, from offering rewards to users who enroll in its platform. Brazilian Authorities Ban World Crypto Rewards Program Sam Altman’s World, the proof-of-humanity biometric ID project, is embroiled in a battle against Brazilian authorities. The National Data Protection Authority […]

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Brazilian Data Protection Agency Reveals Investigation Into Iris Scanning World Project

January 21, 2025 Bitcoin.com

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A note issued by the National Data Protection Authority, Brazil’s data protection institution, has announced that it is actively monitoring the activities of World, the project previously known as Worldcoin, in the country. Given the risks associated with processing biometric data, the authority has requested information on the tasks performed by the company. World Faces […]

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Chile Orders World to Erase Biometric Data of Teenager

January 12, 2025 Bitcoin.com

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The Supreme Court of Chile has ordered World to erase all records of the biometric data of a 17-year-old teenager. According to the court, several constitutional rights were violated by World’s iris-scanning activities. The data must be deleted within 30 days of this decision. World Gets Slapped by Adverse Legal Decision in Chile: Teenager Biometric […]

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Telegram answered 900 US requests for user data in 2024: Report

January 7, 2025 Coin Telegraph

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Telegram reportedly fulfilled 900 total requests from the US for IP addresses and phone numbers affecting 2,253 users.

The messaging app Telegram fulfilled 900 inquiries from the US requesting personal information about its users, with the majority coming in after CEO Pavel Durov’s arrest in France.

According to a Jan. 7 report from 404 Media, Telegram fulfilled 14 requests for “IP addresses and/or phone numbers” from the US between Jan. 1 and Sept. 30, 2024. However, the platform reportedly responded to 900 total inquiries from the US for the year, affecting 2,253 users, suggesting that the number of requests escalated after October.

On Aug. 24, French authorities arrested Durov over allegations Telegram facilitated criminal activity. The CEO said in October that the platform had been providing IP addresses and phone numbers of alleged criminals to authorities in different countries upon request since 2018 — a policy disclosed in Telegram’s privacy policy.

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Web3’s role in protecting digital rights and privacy going into 2025

January 2, 2025 Coin Telegraph

“The whole problem with centralized systems is that there’s a center,” Naoris chief strategy officer David Holtzman told Cointelegraph.

Edison Chen, CEO of CUDIS — a Web3 health and wellness company — told Cointelegraph that decentralized identity solutions, data ownership, and protecting sensitive information will be key objectives for Web3 in 2025.

The CEO said that selective disclosure through decentralized identity solutions would give users control over their data and allow them to monetize this data in the process. Chen wrote:

This selective disclosure is key to maintaining privacy, particularly in healthcare where confidentiality of medical records is a right and advances in artificial intelligence threaten to upend this privacy, the CEO told Cointelegraph.

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240,000 Credit Union Customers Exposed As Hackers Access Trove of Sensitive Data: Report

December 22, 2024 The Daily Hodl

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A South Carolina credit union says 240,000 customers have been exposed in an apparent cyberattack. SRP Federal Credit Union, one of the largest in the state with over $1.6 billion in assets as of 2022, filed breach notifications with regulators in Maine and Texas on December 13th, The Record reports. A law enforcement investigation discovered […]

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