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Overstock.com to Open Exchange for Legal Crypto-Asset Trading

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“In short, the ATS will offer a legally approved, regulated alternative to a major securities exchange, such as the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq.  As such, the platform may be seen as a major step forward for the token space. Simply put, there are currently no other regulator-approved ways for U.S. investors to trade security tokens.”

Read more: https://www.coindesk.com/regulated-icos-arrive-overstock-open-exchange-legal-token-trading/

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IMF Head Foresees the End of Banking, Triumph of Cryptocurrency

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“In a remarkably frank talk at a Bank of England conference, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund has speculated that Bitcoin and cryptocurrency have as much of a future as the Internet itself. It could displace central banks, conventional banking, and challenge the monopoly of national monies.  Christine Lagarde–a Paris native who has held her position at the IMF since 2011–says the only substantial problems with existing cryptocurrency are fixable over time.”

Read more: https://fee.org/articles/imf-head-predicts-the-end-of-banking-and-the-triumph-of-cryptocurrency/

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Standards Body Rejects NSA Encryption Algorithms, Citing Distrust

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“The ISO has decided not to approve two NSA-designed block encryption algorithms: Speck and Simon. It’s because the NSA is not trusted to put security ahead of surveillance.”

Read more: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/09/iso_rejects_nsa.html

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Google warns that govt is demanding more of your private data than ever

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“Google received 48,941 requests for data from 83,345 accounts and produced user information for 65 percent of requests. About half the requests come from the US government. Other major sources of requests include Germany, France, and the UK.”

Read more: http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-warns-that-govt-is-demanding-more-of-your-private-data-than-ever/

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Google Provides Hurricane-Battered Puerto Rico Phone Service By Balloon

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“The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said it had approved the application of Alphabet Inc—the company that runs Google—to provide the service in emergency circumstances.”

Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/after-hurricane-maria-google-provide-phone-service-puerto-rico-balloons-680071

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Post-acquisition Yahoo! reveals every account was hacked in 2013

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“Yahoo said a major security breach in 2013 compromised all three billion accounts the company maintained, a three-fold increase over the estimate it disclosed previously.”

Read more: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/yahoo-says-all-3-billion-accounts-were-compromised-in-2013-hack/

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UK viewers of online terrorist material face 15 years in jail

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“Said Rudd, ‘There is currently a gap in the law around material [that] is viewed or streamed from the internet without being permanently downloaded.'”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/03/amber-rudd-viewers-of-online-terrorist-material-face-15-years-in-jail

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Facial recognition will identify people whose faces are covered

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“Facial recognition is becoming more and more common, but ask anyone how to avoid it and they’ll say: easy, just wear a mask. In the future, though, that might not be enough. Facial recognition technology is under development that’s capable of identifying someone even if their face is covered up — and it could mean that staying anonymous in public will be harder than ever before.”

Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/6/16254476/facial-recognition-masks-diguises-ai

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Equifax data leak exposes 143 million driver’s licenses, SSN, credit card numbers

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“The information came mostly from US residents, but a percentage also involved UK and Canadian citizens and the company is working with authorities from these countries.  Equifax reports that it discovered the leak on July 29th and took steps to stop the intrusion. It then hired a cybersecurity firm to determine the extent of the intrusion and what damage was done. The company reports that it has involved law enforcement, but it’s not clear at this point how the intruders entered the system or exactly what they took.”

Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/07/equifax-data-leak-could-involve-143-million-consumers/

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YouTube Labels Ron Paul Videos “Not Suitable” For Advertising

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“Wikileaks founder Julian Assange tweeted a screenshot of Paul’s ‘Liberty Report’ page showing that his videos had been labeled ‘not suitable’ for all advertisers by YouTube’s content arbiters. Assange claims that Paul was being punished for speaking out about President Donald Trump’s decision to increase the number of US troops in Afghanistan, after Paul published a video on the subject earlier this week.”

Read more: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-27/youtube-economically-censors-ron-paul-labels-videos-not-suitable-all-advertisers

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