For $200, You Can Trade Crypto With a Fake ID
A black market is flourishing for “verified” accounts on major exchanges including Coinbase Pro and Binance US, a CoinDesk investigation found.
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Oct 19, 2021 at 7:11 p.m. UTC
Oct 19, 2021
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Sign-In With Ethereum Is Coming
The dangers of letting Facebook control your online identity are clear. One alternative would use your Ethereum wallet instead, and let you control your own data.
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Oct 8, 2021 at 3:44 p.m. UTC
Oct 8, 2021
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Is Mozilla Trying to Sabotage Distributed Identity?
The browser developer’s straw-man objections to the W3C standard raise questions of motive.
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Oct 1, 2021 at 5:02 p.m. UTC
Oct 1, 2021
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Inside India’s Aadhaar, the World’s Largest Biometric ID System
India’s Aadhaar structure, a biometric, digital and physical identity system, is the world’s largest ID system and exists entirely centralized, bringing up serious privacy con...
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Aug 20, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. UTC
Aug 20, 2021
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Banks in South Korea Instructed to Treat Crypto Exchanges as High-Risk Clients
Banks will have to deny services to clients that do not comply with ID verification requirements or fail to report suspicious activity to the FSC's anti-money laundering unit.
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Jun 14, 2021 at 10:23 a.m. UTC
Jun 14, 2021
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BitMEX to Mandate ID Verification for All Traders as Maverick Exchange Ends Wild Ways
The change comes with a six-month “grace period” ending in February.
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Aug 14, 2020 at 1:00 a.m. UTC
Aug 14, 2020
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Immunity Passes Explained: Should We Worry About Privacy?
Immunity passes could allow people who have had the virus to return to normal life. Here's how they work, and why we might worry.
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Apr 23, 2020 at 5:29 p.m. UTC
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Coinbase's Director of Data Science and Risk Leaves to 'Build From Scratch'
Soups Ranjan, who worked at Coinbase since 2015 as director of data analysis and fraud prevention, has left the crypto exchange to start something new.
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Feb 1, 2019 at 8:45 p.m. UTC
Feb 1, 2019
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Crypto Exchange ShapeShift's CEO Says Move to Collect IDs Was 'Proactive'
Cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift's decision to require user ID wasn't forced upon it but was a preemptive step to reduce legal risks, its CEO said.
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Sep 24, 2018 at 4:01 a.m. UTC
Sep 24, 2018
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Mastercard Eyes Blockchain for Fighting Fake Identities
New patent filings from Mastercard explore a blockchain-based identity data storage system.
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Apr 16, 2018 at 2:30 a.m. UTC
Apr 16, 2018