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  • NightLily@lemmy.basedcount.comtoTechnology@lemmy.world•How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s AnonymityEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I remember when Bitcoin first came out and one of the selling points of bitcoin was that literally anyone could trace the transfers using the wallet codes and what not no? I don’t ever remember there being claims that it was untraceable at least as the selling point to the average consumer. There was even tools in like 2012 for tracking whether stuff internally in bitcoin was stolen or whatever…

    “While the taint analysis tool aims at measuring the “correlation” between two addresses, there is another notion of taint in the Bitcoin community which refers to the percentage of bitcoins, that come from a known theft or scam and have been blacklisted by popular exchange markets. For example, in 2012 the bitcoin exchange Mt.Gox froze accounts of customers, who owned bitcoins that could be directly related to such an incident [20].” https://maltemoeser.de/paper/money-laundering.pdf

  • NightLily@lemmy.basedcount.comtoPrivacy Guides@lemmy.one•School surveillance tech does more harm than good, ACLU report findsEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Note: Found the one big thing I wanted in the ACLU stuff but I’m not reading through the Vice News report at this moment: As Vice News reported, “The few published studies looking into the impacts of [student surveillance] tools indicate that they may have the effect [of] breaking down trust relationships within schools and discouraging adolescents from reaching out for help.”83 Ironically, the same tools the EdTech Surveillance industry is promoting as a means for identifying students in need of help may actually be dis-couraging those students from reaching out to school officials and other adults for help when they need it.

  • NightLily@lemmy.basedcount.comtoPrivacy Guides@lemmy.one•School surveillance tech does more harm than good, ACLU report findsEnglish
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    9 months ago

    The table in the ACLU report is kind of interesting. I mean, I was confused about the could be shared with law enforcement and the could be used to discipline my friends but then seeing the Could be used to identify trans/reproductive health makes those amounts completely understandable as well as the undocumented statement.

    • I always feel like I’m being watched 32%
    • How it could be used to discipline me or my friends 27%
    • What our school and companies they contract with do with the data (such as sell it, analyze it, etc.) 26%
    • How it limits what resources I feel I can access online 24%
    • Could be shared with law enforcement 22%
    • Could be used against me in the future by a college or an employer 21%
    • Could be used to identify students seeking reproductive health care (such as contraception or abortion care) 21%
    • Could be used to identify students seeking gender-affirming care (such as transgender students seeking hormones) 18%
    • Could be used against immigrant students, especially those who are undocumented 18%
    • How it limits what I say online 17%
    • Could be used to “out” LGBTQIA+ students 13%
    • I have no concerns regarding surveillance in my school 27%

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    Source: YouGov. School Surveillance, fielded October 20-26, 2022. Commissioned by ACLU TABLE 1 Students’ Concerns About School Surveillance