Obama, Brave Inc Raise Concern for Bitcoiner Privacy
The online privacy discussion is heating up again as President Obama and the Brave browser raised concerns regarding data collection from both the government and the private sector. This time, the debate hits close to home for Bitcoiners, since both Obama’s recent South by Southwest speech and Brave Software take particular interest in our favorite digital currency. On March 11, At South by Southwest in Austin, Texas President Obama gave a speech about the current state of digital privacy and the recent Apple backdoor controversy. Obama appealed to America’s sense of security by warning of....
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Technical Operations Coordinator at Brave, Chris Nguyen, hosted a Reddit AMA in which he answered questions from the community. Although he stated that he was happy to discuss all topics, including details of his personal life, the most upvoted questions were about the future direction of Brave. For example, one user asked Nguyen to explain […]
Editor’s note: At the request of the Brave team, Bitcoinist will be conducting an interview with the company’s CEO so he can make his case for Brave’s data collection practices. We will publish this interview in full on Bitcoinist.net. Editor’s note (3/13/2016 3:39 PM EST): The Brave CEO did not agree to an interview with Bitcoinist. Instead, an interview between Bitcoinist and “someone from Brave” was discussed. We would like to apologize to our readers for this miscommunication. Brave has since declined any interview with us. Instead, they have opted to leave their input in the comments....