What if Privacy Were the Default? Most digital services still require accounts, personal data, and behavioral tracking permissions, even for simple actions. It’s often assumed that convenience depends on identity. But that assumption is outdated. Tools like anonymous credentials make it possible to build services where an identifying profile is
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.
Our work is more than a business for us: We see it as an avenue to advance the use of distributed technologies that empower users, especially their ability to control their own data, since privacy is a human right. These numbers demonstrate how our years of experience can directly contribute
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
2021 seems to be the year that we all accepted the term “Web3” as the way to refer to the collective movements of decentralizing infrastructure and empowering users to be in control. It means the next generation of the Internet and beyond, which includes the tokenization of things for digital
Least Authority is pleased to announce the publication of the Zero Knowledge Access Passes (ZKAPs) Whitepaper. The paper is intended both for technical and non-technical audiences. ZKAPs, or Zero-Knowledge Access Passes, provide an anonymous, token-based authorization protocol based on Privacy Pass that facilitates an online exchange of value while disconnecting
On February 22nd, Least Authority’s CEO and Managing Director Liz Steininger spoke about Zero Knowledge Access Passes [ZKAPs] at Hello Decentralization, a free community event where members meet and discuss decentralized technologies from a technical perspective. The full talk can be viewed above and slides can be found here. The
Keep your data private in our cloud. PrivateStorage is a new secure storage product that will become available in the third quarter of 2021. As firm believers in protection of our customers’ privacy, we will offer a private, secure and end-to-end encrypted solution that aims to minimize the collection of