Despite the preferences of data protection fundamentalists for minimal disclosure, disclosure obligations are legally required in several areas with the aim of protecting the integrity of the financial system and ensuring legal and ethical conduct. These include Know Your Customer (KYC) processes, beneficial ownership reporting, sanctions compliance, and tax reporting.
Through our work, we have the opportunity to speak with various people in the FinTech, Cybersecurity, and Web3 fields. Recently, one pattern emerged: there is increasing interest in advanced cryptography techniques and protocols, such as zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC), and Fully-Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), which can improve users’
Since 2015, Least Authority has been working with zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) to further enable privacy, improve security, and encourage the implementation of zero-knowledge proofs in Web3 technologies and beyond. Although Zcash spun out of Least Authority with the Electric Coin Company in 2016, we continued to work on zero-knowledge
March was a busy, but exciting month for Least Authoritarians. It started off with our participation in 2017 Internet Freedom Festival (IFF) held from March 6-10 in Valencia, Spain and ended at 2017 RightsCon, which took place from March 29-31, in Brussels, Belgium. Open supportive conversations, knowledge sharing with like-minded professionals, a