Four months after General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect, France is seeing a rise in data privacy complaints. The country’s CNIL agency announced on Tuesday (Sept. 25) that it’s received 3,767 complaints since May 25, which is when the GDPR went into effect. That is an increase from 2,294 complaints over the same period last […]
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There has been quite a bit of chatter about Coinbase lately, most notably its cryptocurrency custody service, targeted at high net worth individuals and financial institutions. The company has also been engaged in a number of other activities, including its GiveCrypto fund to end poverty, and its investment in a new stablecoin, Reserve that’s also […]
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In January 2018, Facebook placed a ban on cryptocurrency and ICO advertising on its platform, when Bitcoin prices were more than double what they are today. There was speculation that this could be in preparation for a Litecoin integration with Facebook, or that a new “Facecoin” was on the horizon. In addition to the Facebook […]
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Bing, the number two search engine in the US, and number three in the world, will ban cryptocurrency and ICO ads. This ban puts Bing in alignment with Google, Twitter and Facebook, under the banner of consumer protection. There are of course, ICO scams that exist, and the question is whether an entire industry, namely […]
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Mailchimp has joined the bandwagon against ICOs by prohibiting email campaigns on their platform, according to the company’s acceptable use policy. This puts them in the same anti-crypto coalition as Facebook, Twitter and Google, with their plans to ban ICO ads. According to Mailchimp’s modifications to their Terms of Use, “we cannot allow businesses involved […]
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Although it’s debatable whether Cambridge Analytica actually did anything outside of Facebook’s Terms of Service, with regard to how the organization collected and utilized customer data, the #DeleteFacebook campaign is very real. Highly influential people have joined the bandwagon, including tech titan Elon Musk who took down the Facebook pages for Tesla and SpaceX. Facebook […]
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According to a report from Sky News, Twitter is expected to ban ICO advertising and most cryptocurrency exchange ads. Facebook was the first platform to make a major push against digital currency advertising, though there has been some speculation that the behemoth social media platform might release its own cryptocurrency or a possible partnership with […]
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