The results of “Privacy Proof” annual awards are here. First patient - “Doxxer of the year” category.
These are the champions responsible for leaks, breaches, surveillance, data manipulation, anti-privacy features, and non-ethical behaviour. Their actions vary, but the consequences are the same - minus to privacy.
Approach “Doxxer” category as an educational track & explore how different orgsnisations, governments and individuals undermine privacy.
“Privacy Proof” is an annual awards facilitated by the Web3Privacy now collective. It aims to feature key projects, news, innovations & doxxers of the market selected by 90+ enthusiasts, developers, researchers, cryptographers, cypherpunks, and community builders from Vitalik Buterin to Zooko behind the Ethereum, Nym, Logos, Railgun, Aztec, ZK Sync, dappnode, Electric Coin & Co. & many other organisations.
All contributions are public & can be found on X & Fileverse
Coinbase encourage people to not use VPN while accessing it’s services.
Arkham - a crypto intelligence platform that works on doxxing wallet holders.
Fractal & OpenAI - the decentralized identity stack & LLM
Fractal data breach compromised personal data of 1M customers.
Arkham - a crypto intelligence platform
Fractal - decentralized identity stack
Worldcoin - digital proof of human identity based on biometrics scan through digital device
Chainalysis - blockchain analysis firm
UnitedHealth, the largest U.S. health insurance provider, blamed a Russia-based ransomware gang for the huge data breach of U.S. medical data.
Big Socials - a grouping of the largest IT companies in the world
Luma - crypto events management platform
Kid Security - parental control app
Snowflake breach
Telegram - popular messenger
Coinbase asking users to not use VPNs
ChatGPT - a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI
Mobilewalla - an American data broker company that collects and sells mobile device data
Gravy Analytics - location intelligence and foot traffic data
Ledger - crypto-wallet company
AT&T Data Leak - 110M customer details breached
Mozilla's latest edition of *Privacy Not Included reveals how 25 major car brands collect and share deeply personal data, including sexual activity, facial expressions, and genetic and health information.
Coinbase has been ramping up surveillance and working closely with us government, closing accounts.
A massive data leak involving over 800,000 Volkswagen EVs has left sensitive user information unprotected on the internet.
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National Public Data (NPD) - a data broker company
Government databases
Australia age-gated internet content KYC enforcement
The U.S. Government for Mandating Backdoors
the EU
Ylva Johansson (and every EU nation that didn’t block the proposal)
FATF (The Financial Action Task Force) - global action to tackle money laundering, terrorist and proliferation financing
Every government
FINCEN - US bureau safeguarding the financial system from illicit activity, counter money laundering and the financing of terrorism, and promote national security
DoJ attacking onchain privacy tools
EU politicians for trying to ban E2EE in messaging apps
The Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DGCNECT) of the European Commission, for leading the development of the European Digital Identity (EUDI) wallet project
Norwegian government - tax/income info of every citizen
The FATF with the introduction of the travel rule
Michael Saylor - American entrepreneur behind MicroStrategy
Januus (Thiel Fellowship) - mapping cryptowallets for physical locations and people on a global scale.
ZachXBT - crypto investigator (positive example)
**Sam Altman - entrepreneur behind OpenAI
@brian_armstrong for encouraging people to buy coffee with USDC on Base
John Barnett - for whistleblowing about Boeing not addressing safety issues (positive example)
Kash Patel - Transparency from within the US government (Doxxer on the inside)
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"Active listening" for ad targeting
Anyone building without privacy is ngmi
All transparent blockchains (Solana, Ethereum, L2s, Tron, Bitcoin, etc)
Bitcoin - decentralized cryptocurrency
The people who built and deployed Lavender for doxxing people in Gaza
Privacy Pools' 'proof-of-innocence'
Lumma Stealer - Fake CAPTCHA Attack
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