ADVERTISEMENTS A team of close to 130 people from 17 institutes, organisations and companies in Europe is developing a technology that is intended as an alternative to privacy-invading tracking technologies used in some countries in Asia to combat the COVID-19. Top experts from multiple European nations are working on an open-source Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing initiative (PEPP-PT) to provide a complete framework and reference implementation to track and stop the transmission of COVID-19 rapidly and effectively by informing potentially exposed people they are carriers and still adhere to the EU’s…
Day: April 9, 2020
Bullet-Proof Crypto Mixer ‘’PenguinX’’ Brings Anonymity to Bitcoin
Bitcoin was born with the intention of having a currency free from the control of banks and governments. However, Bitcoin and most other cryptocurrencies are transparent and can be subject to analysis techniques that destroy users’ privacy. To avoid this type of surveillance, PenguinX has developed a Bitcoin mixer that uses artificial intelligence to protect the privacy of Bitcoiners around the world. Privacy in the Digital Age Bitcoin is neither completely anonymous nor completely transparent. Bitcoin’s privacy lies in a gray area that depends solely on user domesticity. Depending on…