Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Perspectives on (Ca-)Libra #2: On the Libra association (board) and business drivers

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First of all apologies to many of you: I promised a blog on the reason why Libra would not qualify as e-money, but please accept my rain che...
Saturday, June 22, 2019

Perspectives on Ca-Libra # 1. Getting rid of three smokescreens

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This week the world has witnessed the announcement by Facebook of Calibra , a digital currency wallet and company. The wallet holds Libra...
Friday, June 14, 2019

FATF as in: Facebook As The Foe or Facebook As The Friend ?

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Dear Mr Billingslea, dear Members of the FATF and dear civil servants in the room, As you are nearing the end of a very productive year I...
Sunday, June 09, 2019

G20 and FATF should not infringe on the human right to privacy by prescribing mass surveillance for virtual assets !

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Over the past weeks, I have been sounding the alarm as to the envisaged FATF-recommendations in the area of virtual assets. Essentially the...
Saturday, June 08, 2019

Zimmermans' relevance for discussions on human rights and ICT-security surveillance

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If we look at economic and social risks of new technologies, outsiders will often immediately fall into the trap of considering this to be...
Thursday, May 09, 2019

FATF and EU need to fundamentally rethink their approach to virtual assets/currencies...

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Virtual currencies are on the radar of regulators for quite some time. Yet it is clear that they still struggle with definitions (which al...