Officials voiced privacy concerns over China’s blockchain-powered hospital

In the past year and a half, a lot of focus has been put onto privacy and how governments have been spying on both citizens of their own country, as well as other officials in foreign countries. A draft bill has surfaced in The Netherlands, which would regulate bulk surveillance from an online perspective. Our society has been evolving in such a way that most people have [gladly] given up their privacy in return for more convenient ways to spend their lives. However, every time the topic of privacy comes up, these same people are the first ones to complain about how their human rights are....

News has come in this morning that Baidu has banned bitcoin advertising on its website which handles almost all of China’s search inquiries. The action follows the tragic death of Wei Zexi, a college student with cancer who sought treatment from a hospital found through an online advertisement. Zexi stated in a post before his death that Baidu had mislead him to seek treatment from a hospital that had advertised a treatment researched in collaboration with Stanford. This turned out to be untrue, sending the Chinese internet on fire and bringing to surface seemingly long-held allegations of....

"This bill holds China accountable as they introduce their new digital currency,” said Senator Bill Cassidy. Nine Republican senators have backed legislation aimed at directing the policy of U.S. government agencies around concerns that China’s digital yuan may be used to circumvent sanctions and compromise users' personal information.In a Wednesday announcement, Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy and Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn, backed by seven other Republican senators, proposed the Say No To the Silk Road Act — a bill that would require certain government agencies to report on....

Over the past few years, banks have destroyed the precarious trust relation they had established with their customer base. Ever since the latest financial crisis hit in 2008, banks have been facing a lot of scrutiny from the general population and government officials alike. The latest anti-corruption campaign in Beijing has claimed three more victims, one of whom is the president of one of China’s largest banks. Company executives and government officials have been targeted by China’s massive anti-corruption probe since 2013 when President Xi Jinping was put in charge. Over the course of....

A British man has shared his story of how his cryptocurrency addiction has led to criminal charges and landed him in a hospital for addiction treatment. He lost more than a million dollars of other people’s money trying to duplicate his previous success in cryptocurrency trading. Crypto Addiction on the Rise, One Hospital Is Treating Over 100 Crypto Addicts A British man has shared his story of how his cryptocurrency addiction turned him into a criminal, the BBC reported. Referring to him as Jake, the publication noted Sunday that he is currently in treatment at one of the only....