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Rage Weekly: A Big Dumb Surveillance Bill

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by L0la L33tz
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Rage Weekly: A Big Dumb Surveillance Bill

New in The Rage, Samourai Wallet and Tornado Cash:

We partnered with Cato Institute's Nick Anthony to bring you more financial surveillance news

Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm gives rare interview that's worth a listen

Finally

yeah, it's not

New in Surveillance:

Trump's big dumb bill will drastically expand surveillance

And likely replace CISA with Palantir

This is fine .jpg

..yeah

Making America 265% More Great Again

To get an idea what this money will be used for

Fittingly, the Trump adminstration will also expand surveillance across air, land, and sea travel

This will go well with REAL-ID, the 9/11 era identification program that is totally not a digital identity

Meanwhile, a16z's Flock Safety is misused for ICE enforcement

Austin doesn't extend Flock Safety contracts, go Austin

OK????

Meanwhile in Georgia???

And now we all say it together: if it is collected, it will be leaked

or used by "the bad guys"

Onto the good news: Proton is joining a class action suit against Apple over surveillance capitalism

Germans continue to be pathetic

Canada law enforcement hands out tea to collect DNA samples, which is a totally normal thing to do

One for the Schizos

Interesting read on the history of NSA bulk data collection and the creation of Google

Not problematic at all

Great post by EFF in light of all of this

New in Banking:

Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey launch stablecoin bank named after The Hobbit vault where the bad guys stole everybodys money, lmao

In case you have still not gotten the memo

RobinHood tokenizes stonks

OpenAI isn't happy about it

Neither is the EU

Jane Street gets banned in India, and of course the answer is more surveillance

BCG wats to put genocide on the blockchain

Canada still wants a CBDC, lol

New in (Anti) Money Laundering:

Israel sanctions people working at NGOs that investigate war crimes

Meanwhile, Trump lifts sanctions on a country run by a literal Al-Quaeda member

And OFAC issues sanctions regulations on International Criminal Court

All that surveillance tech at TD Bank, and yet they still somehow managed to not catch money launderers (this should tell you something)

I would once again like to know where they get these fake identities

That'll fix the problem

Oh look, more banks do money laundering

But sure, "crypto" is the problem

Australia at least has gotten the hint

We should all depsise Black Rock but I am equally tired of these headlines

same

Cointelegraph says crypto scam used crypto to launder funds, then accidentally proceeds to explain how they could have laundered the entire thing without crypto

funny

Secret Service, Coinbase, and Tether run the AML show now

lmao

New in Bitcoin, etc:

Interesting

Ok?

Glok App launches with free security checklist

Proton guy says Proton is adding Monero for VPN payments, which is cool

SuperTestnet continues to not trace Monero addresses, which is also pretty cool

BTC++ gets a substack, which is super cool

That's it for this week, check back next time for probably even worse news

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