An academic study published in the Journal of Cybersecurity effectively advises governments to attack privacy-protecting blockchains.
The study, conducted by Iwona Karasek-Wojciechowicz, was published more than three years ago, in March 2021, but only recently has the news of its publication spread.
The attack of governments on high-privacy blockchains
The key issue is the fight against money laundering, so much so that the study is titled “Reconciling anti-money laundering tools and European data protection requirements in permissionless blockchain spaces“.
The problem is the compliance with European data regulations, the so-called GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) which came into effect in 2016, and those concerning anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CFT).
The conclusion reached by the author of the study is that governments should adopt two AML/CFT tools, including exceptional government access to transactional data written on
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