“Something that we’ve lost as American consumers is financial privacy,” Yael Ossowski, Consumer Choice Center, told Channel 2 Action News. “Essentially, we have financial surveillance.” My comments on the Saving Privacy Act on WSB-TV and syndicated to…
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In Pursuit Of “Corporate Transparency,” A Mass Doxxing Of LLCs Puts Financial Freedom And Privacy At Risk
Beginning this year, any individual with shares in an American domiciled company will be required to submit identifying information to FinCEN. This record collection from the US Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is intended to “curb illicit finance”…
Open Source Arrests: US Officials Sour on Biden’s War on Privacy
Biden is waging war on financial privacy, and not everyone is happy. The last several weeks have weighed heavily on those in Bitcoin who use privacy tools and software. Between the ceremonious arrests across two…
The privacy bill that exempts government and beefs up the FTC
Last week, a discussion draft of the American Privacy Rights Act was published. Considering I’ve written about the need for a national privacy law for some time, I wanted to be sure I gave it…
Kibbe on Liberty: Congress Is Using Kids to Impose Online Censorship
While I was in Washington, D.C., I spoke to freedom maximalist and “Don’t Hurt People and Don’t Take Their Stuff” author Matt Kibbe about online privacy and the Internet, the Kids Online Safety Act, Bitcoin…
Heard Tell Radio: UAP Disclosure, AI, & Privacy
My latest interview on Andrew Donaldson‘s Heard Tell Radio is a bit of a wild one. To begin, I discuss the growing movement for government disclosure on UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) or UFOs, and why…
Why Bitcoin privacy matters in the real world
Avoiding financial surveillance on-chain isn’t just a paranoid pursuit. For many, it’s a matter of life and death. The early adherents of Bitcoin were drawn to the technology because it offered a digitally native monetary…
Not your keys, not your coins: Claiming better ownership of your stack with Bitcoin privacy
The tools to be a better sovereign Bitcoin user are at your disposal – and recent developments suggest you should use them When significant consolidations happen in the cryptocurrency market, Bitcoiners have a habit of…