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    February 14, 2020

    Ethereum ALL ETHDenver Livestreams HERE!:)

    ALL ETHDenver Livestreams HERE!:)

    Posted: 14 Feb 2020 03:09 PM PST

    Decentralized storage and zkSNARKS - Golem joins the Filecoin trusted setup ceremony

    Posted: 14 Feb 2020 05:58 AM PST

    Prysmatic Labs Eth 2.0 Dev Update #44 — “More Optimizations”

    Posted: 14 Feb 2020 07:02 AM PST

    ETHDenver Day2 Mainstage Livestream

    Posted: 14 Feb 2020 01:25 PM PST

    ETHDenver Day2 2nd Stage Livestream

    Posted: 14 Feb 2020 01:29 PM PST

    Last beta of Alex Van de Sande's UniLogin project is out before the first production release!

    Posted: 14 Feb 2020 09:08 AM PST

    ETHDenver Main Stage Day1

    Posted: 14 Feb 2020 06:37 AM PST

    Live review of Dharma's new iOS app for DeFi lending

    Posted: 14 Feb 2020 06:42 AM PST

    Status privacy policy: a public inquiry about the recently published document

    Posted: 14 Feb 2020 01:17 AM PST

    Disclosure

    I have been following Status as a project for about 2.5 years, possibly slightly more. In my personal opinion Status is one of the most interesting projects on the market right now, more so - one of a kind. I also hold some SNT.

    This message by no means is intended to cause harm, hype or is negatively addressed at Status. On the contrary, as a someone who thinks Status is one of the most interesting projects on the market, I would like to clarify the questions and prove that Status is, in fact, the project I think it is.

    Before we go on forward, let me say that: I might as well be overreacting, mistaken or simply misreading the documents. I am also not a legal expert, however, I can use my logic and have the right to protect my views/concerns.

    TL;DR

    Recently Status announced and released version 1.0 of the mobile app, and as an interested party, I downloaded the app and started reading the privacy policy.

    Upon reading the agreement I came at some phrases that led me to think, that for a privacy orientated application, the data collection policy is a bit, shall I say`steep` (over the edge).

    My concern

    Now, I am the type of person who probably labels himself as the less caring about governments, borders, fiat money, legalization, etc.

    However, I am old enough to understand that (1) in the words of Madonna "we are still living in a material world" and (2) Status has a legal entity and hence follows certain principles and abides certain rules, which in a world of true anarchism, IMO is perfectly normal.

    Each company/project/person has the complete right to do what and how they think is best.

    Being nosy and of the curious kind, I decided to read the doc thorough and stumbled upon certain phrases that raised my attention (here are some of them):

    • Unless specified otherwise, all Data requested by this Application is mandatory and failure to provide this Data may make it impossible for this Application to provide its services.
    • Any use of Cookies – or of other tracking tools – by this Application or by the owners of third-party services used by this Application serves the purpose of providing the Service required by the User, in addition to any other purposes described in the present document and in the Cookie Policy, if available.
    • Users are responsible for any third-party Personal Data obtained, published or shared through this Application and confirm that they have the third party's consent to provide the Data to the Owner.
    • In addition to the Owner, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of this Application (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third-party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the Owner at any time.
    • processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner or by a third party.
    • Personal Data collected for the purposes of the Owner's legitimate interests shall be retained as long as needed to fulfill such purposes
    • The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Owner to provide its Service, comply with its legal obligations, respond to enforcement requests, protect its rights and interests (or those of its Users or third parties), detect any malicious or fraudulent activity, as well as the following: Platform services and hosting.
    • The Owner reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by notifying its Users on this page and possibly within this Application and/or - as far as technically and legally feasible - sending a notice to Users via any contact information available to the Owner. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom.

    Now, there are several other phrases which ring my alarm bells, but these are enough as examples.

    To be fair and open, the data collected (it is listed in several places on the policy) isn't actually that bad.

    Yes, it's enough to give the app an overview and a picture of the users' behaviour and possibly resell that data. It is also enough to incriminate a user if he/she/they do something that is considered to be illegal by a certain party and that data is shared with those who consider this deed to be illegal.

    Which for some may be right, but who decided on what is legal and what is not (irrelevant question for this discussion, of course).

    I stated in the beginning that I am no legal expert, but I did compare some privacy orientated privacy policies. For example:

    I also tried to find a privacy policy for tails on the internet, and I did not manage to find a concrete doc and neither did I find a specific doc for Tor.

    I cannot say that any of these policies are "perfect", but most are certainly clearer in terms of user-friendliness and some, like duckduckgo, certainly to my understanding are more loyal in terms of what they plan/can do with the user data.

    The conclusion

    Am I overreacting? Well, I do not think so, as I am not making any bold statements and/or jump to conclusions, I simply do not have the needed expertise for those. This post is intended as self-clarification from Status and or from other, more expert users, who can calmly and without judgement read thorough the docs (I am certainly not interested in holy-wars, guesses and other bingo bullshit discussions, so please refrain from any such comments).

    However, it does seem odd to me that a privacy-oriented app, has such a long list of what it can and what it might do with the user data, even if it is not planning to do so. Of course, as a legal entity Status is trying to protect itself and follow the rules.

    And once again, I am not attacking Status. I am trying to clarify the purpose of such a detailed, and in my view - over allowing the owner to use user data, the privacy policy for a privacy orientated app.

    Will be glad to upgrade any of this, update what I wrote after clarifications, etc.

    submitted by /u/serejandmyself
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    Opyn launches insurance platform to protect DeFi users

    Posted: 14 Feb 2020 05:04 AM PST

    Announcing Create Eth App - create Ethereum-powered React apps with one command

    Posted: 14 Feb 2020 04:41 PM PST

    Use it like this:

    yarn create eth-app my-eth-app

    See the source code:

    https://github.com/PaulRBerg/create-eth-app

    submitted by /u/PaulRBerg
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    Something Useful for Ethereum Ecosystem

    Posted: 14 Feb 2020 12:12 PM PST

    Hey Everyone,

    I'm a Blockchain developer & DLT advocate. I've decided to devote a portion of my time to create something useful for the Ethereum ecosystem. Would you please helping me to find out where the real need lies?

    Thank you in advance.

    submitted by /u/behradkhodayar
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    [DeFi] - how can I save money with it?

    Posted: 14 Feb 2020 08:11 AM PST

    DefiZaps - All The Coolest Ethereum Defi Concepts In One Click

    Posted: 13 Feb 2020 11:12 PM PST

    gelato - Your personal Ethereum bot

    Posted: 14 Feb 2020 09:45 AM PST

    snglsDAO is changing their name...we want the community's input

    Posted: 14 Feb 2020 12:20 PM PST

    Hey all,

    snglsDAO is gonna be changing our name to something that relates more to what we are aiming to do. We have opened up the conversation here: https://forum.snglsdao.io/t/project-call-20-discussion-thread-snglsdao-name-change/96

    If you are curious about what we are talking about you can check out the video of the announcement here: https://x.breaker.io/?type=series&id=a2f603dc22a1be4fa8d4ef9ce455360bf3ab8ce772526e35fef79175fa1dfadf&season=1ce1e2eede2395de6351df4d9e6db8069a198e127a178d3ea684e4eafc2f4a4c&episode=831fa50062f25b50193f2e6a33b470c6c83265f8b3687931ad925f65f34676c1

    submitted by /u/DannyDesert
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    OpenZeppelin Quick Reference for the Busy EthDenver Hacker ⚡ Happy hacking

    Posted: 14 Feb 2020 11:58 AM PST

    We are looking for a Marketing Lead to join our amazing team at OpenZeppelin! ⚡ In case you don't fit this job description perfectly, we hope you still apply. We are looking to hire the right person for our team and this might not require checking all the boxes.

    Posted: 14 Feb 2020 11:44 AM PST

    Will Ethereum 2.0 have an impact on the blockchain world?

    Posted: 14 Feb 2020 06:03 AM PST

    Hey guys.

    You helped me so much with my thesis on Ethereum and Ethereum 2.0. I got an A, so yay thank you very much <3

    While researching, I wondered, as Ethereum 2.0 is the first major Blockchain Update and the first one to change the consensus algorithm and how the platform is build.

    What impact do you think will it such a huge change have on the blockchain world in general?

    I guess others would try to use the technology developed for the Ethereum 2.0 Update to create new Blockchains, but will there be any major impact on the rest of the Blockchains that already exist?

    submitted by /u/Abbyfriend
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    Set Procotol - Trade the market by copying the best traders on TokenSets.

    Posted: 14 Feb 2020 09:43 AM PST

    How Bitcoin is coming to Ethereum, again

    Posted: 14 Feb 2020 08:59 AM PST
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