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'We need new privacy laws' urges Apple CEO, Tim Cook

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 04:25:00 -0800

In a sidelong slap at the business model of Facebook, Google and others, Apple CEO Tim Cook has published an article in which he urges the U.S. government to put surveillance capitalists/data brokers under transparent legal oversight.

Stand up for your rights

“In 2019, it’s time to stand up for the right to privacy – yours, mine, all of ours.” Cook writes in an article for Time Magazine.

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ComputerWorldIndependent

'We need new privacy laws' urges Apple CO, Tim Cook

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 04:25:00 -0800

In a sidelong slap at the business model of Facebook, Google and others, Apple CEO Tim Cook has published an article in which he urges the U.S. government to put surveillance capitalists/data brokers under transparent legal oversight.

Stand up for your rights

“In 2019, it’s time to stand up for the right to privacy – yours, mine, all of ours.” Cook writes in an article for Time Magazine.

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Start-up Devvio claims its blockchain can handle 8M transactions a second

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 03:00:00 -0800

A start-up firm claims its highly efficient distributed ledger protocol can address all the major problems facing blockchain networks, including being able to scale for global financial business by executing up to eight million transactions per second (TPS).

The new blockchain protocol, called Devv, was unveiled and demonstrated at CES in Las Vegas last week.

If the claims prove true, Devv would be able to compete with traditional financial networks in terms of scalability, be far less expensive to use and would address fraud, theft and privacy issues. Like many blockchain protocols, Devv is not just a peer-to-peer (P2P) database technology but also a digital currency or cryptocurrency called Devcash.

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