MiCA is live. EU exchanges are delisting privacy coins. Kraken dropped XMR in late 2024. But P2P trading between individuals remains explicitly exempt from CASP requirements. No KYC. No travel rule. Just two people and a fair price. This is why we build decentralized infrastructure.
Federal Right To #Privacy Act
The Solution: A Comprehensive Privacy Bill
The bill imposes hard limits on #surveillance , hidden collection, #coercive “consent,” brokered data trafficking, and government circumvention of what should be a lawful process balancing #freedom with evidence of wrongdoing. It restores rule-based protections people can understand and courts can enforce.
righttoprivacyact.github.io
Federal Right To Privacy ActThe EU MiCA-driven XMR delisting wave is accelerating:
Kraken — delisted XMR for EU customers Binance — delisted XMR for EU customers OKX — delisted XMR for EU customers
The centralised on-ramp is gone. The answer is P2P:
Cash by Mail (EU-wide) Face-to-Face (Germany, France) Haveno escrow — no counterparty risk
Banks tried to kill cash. Exchanges tried to kill XMR. Neither worked.
A Tale of Two Bills: Lawful Access Returns With Changes to #Warrantless Access But Dangerous #Backdoor #Surveillance Risks Remain - Michael Geist ( #Canada )
#warrants #privacy
Michael Geist
A Tale of Two Bills: Lawful Access Returns With Changes to Warrantless Access But Dangerous Backdoor Surveillance Risks Remain - Michael GeistThe decades-long battle over lawful access entered a new phase yesterday with the introduction of Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act. This bill follows the attempt last spring to bury lawful access provisions in Bill C-2, a border measures bill that was the new government’s first piece of substantive legislation. The lawful access elements of the bill faced an immediate backlash given the inclusion of unprecedented rules permitting widespread warrantless access to personal information. Those rules were on very shaky constitutional ground and the government ultimately decided to hit the reset button on lawful access by proceeding with the border measures in a different bill. Lawful access never dies, however. Bill C-22 cover the two main aspects of lawful access: law enforcement access to personal information held by communication service providers such as ISPs and wireless providers and the development of surveillance and monitoring capabilities within Canadian networks. In fact, the bill is separated into two with the first half dealing with “timely access to data and information” and the second establishing the Supporting Authorized Access to Information Act (SAAIA).
Super-unsettling investigative details, digging into the rather shady-sounding organizations that are pushing (and in many cases writing) these #privacy-destroying age-verification laws in many states: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/
Well worth a look, especially if you're in one of the states that has been affected so far. (Which include CA, CO, IL, NY -- this influence operation isn't particularly a red-state thing.)
#Meta seems to be up to its neck in all this, and that deserves to be shouted from the rooftops...
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