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“I wouldn’t want perfect privacy because that would mean it would be impossible to investigate crimes at all. And that’s one of the jobs we need the state to do
by jammygit 8y ago
“I wouldn’t want perfect privacy because that would mean it would be impossible to investigate crimes at all. And that’s one of the jobs we need the state to do.”
Anyway, I wonder if there is any protection built-in that prevents the exchange from looking you up on linked-in and associating your salary information with your job, then selling the data. It could make salary negotiations a little more unfair.
Actually wondering, does anybody know details? This seems it would need some law passed to protect your privacy in this case, and that hasn't been the trend lately (except in the EU).
- cyphar 8y ago> Anyway, I wonder if there is any protection built-in that prevents the exchange from looking you up on linked-in and associating your salary information with your job, then selling the data. The same exact problem exists with BitCoin or any other cryptocurrency where you need to pay an exchange money directly (through some method). Most exchanges require you provide government-issued ID (due to the laws in most countries having strict requirements about financial businesses having to know who they are trading with). However, the really clever aspect of Taler is that the privacy is geared towards consumers and not businesses. You have to buy your tokens (as before) from an exchange that might ask for your identity, but after that the tokens can no longer be correlated -- they look completely unrelated to businesses and other users -- which means that correlation-by-credit-card is no longer feasible. In BitCoin, you can in theory correlate transactions made by a given person.