KDC #102: Janine @J9Roem- Bitcoin, Privacy,&Investigative Journalism

#Bitcoin #Privacy #InvestigativeJournalism

Janine @J9Roem, investigative journalist & "ThatOnePrivacyGirl", joins me & my Co-Host, Stefanie von Jan, in this special educational episode  to talk about:   

Wikileaks could only survive with Bitcoin because all bank accounts were shut down 
Importance of source verification: use primary sources for high quality content - this way fake news can be easily tested     
Why privacy matters         

Privacy for informational self-determination: power to reveal oneself selectively to the world          

Cryptography as essential and powerful tool to provide privacy         

Use case on how innocent people were targeted through stalking where the stalker had access to location data through mobile provider 
     Why mass surveillance?         

Mass surveillance does not prevent the spread of the virus or terrorism          

Not effected for anti money laundering         

But effective for surveilling the people where terror prevention and AML serves as cover story      
Data collection for marketing purposes         

Data used for marketing purposes and individual ad targeting         

Ad blocker is a protest against surveillance, both against marketing and law enforcement      
Data used by governments       

Governements collaborate in spying on its citizens: Law prohibits surveillance by the home government which is why governments agree with foreign governments for them to spy on their citizens and subsequently exchange information         

Governments collaborate with data collection services usually indirectly to get around 4th amendment protection         

Cases Carpenter vs US and US vs Miller          
Later one:

bank records do not have 4th amendment protection (=no privacy): Coinbase records are considered bank records and thus preserve no privacy          

As soon as data is revealed to third party, then there is no 4th amendment protection: third parties are security and privacy holes     
Recommendation        

Check a service provider’s partnerships before engaging         

Read their privacy policy          

Buy Bitcoin with cash to maximize privacy          

Run your own full node and improve your full node privacy  

Links of Janine:  

twitter: @J9Roem / @blockdigest / @panopticast  

Blog & Newsletter: https://enegnei.github.io/This-Month-In-Bitcoin-Privacy/ Slides

Slides on Bitcoin & Privacy: https://einzelgaengerinmotte.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/slides-final-2.pdf  

Article by Dr. Ron Pol:  https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/the-war-on-money-laundering-has-failed-2e8b3df7507b  

Links on FullNode etc:   

keepitsimplebitcoin.com     

mynodebtc.com 

etc.

Love, share, re-tweet, follow, and subscribe!  Thank you for listening, watching, and your support!