This is the 4th instalment covering the results of the #2023privacyproof poll. Explore previous selections:

1. The “Projects” category selection.

2. “News & Events” category.

3. “Innovations”.

The selection of the anti-privacy “Doxxers” has been made by 100+ privacy enthusiasts, developers, researchers, cryptographers, cypherpunks, and community builders from the DarkFi, Nym, Swarm, Logos, HOPR, Railgun_, Circles UBI, Rotki, Puzzle, Espresso Systems & many other organisations.

Doxxer of the year

Any project, person, or organisation that sought to reduce privacy within the space.

Private companies & non-profits: 15

• Ledger

• Friend.Tech

• WalletConnect

• Arkham

• PimEyes

• MetaMask

• ATOR

• Uniswap frontend

• MOVEit Data breach

• Worldcoin

• OpenAI

• Google/Apple/Xiaomi push notification services

• Okta

• Trezor Live

• Meta's shadowbanning

Contribution example from Fileverse

Leaked people’s chat history. It’s only going to get worse and more widespread (expect that from other AR-LLM providers too). Crypto should be at the forefront of making local LLMs easy to use for people.

Regulator: 13

• Ursula von der Leyen

• Stefan Berger & the EU Parliament (MiCA)

• Gary Gensler: the Bitcoin ETF delayed a major opening down the rabbit hole to digital sovereignty

• Nikki Haley, US Presidential Candidate

• Swedish government's Offentlighetsprincipen, the law that makes residential addresses and tax records public

• HMRC

• Kid Security The US SEC

• Oireachtas Éireann

• British government: Online Safety Act

• EU proposal of installing inside browsers "Qualified Website Authentication Certificates" that could be used by authorities for mass surveillance

• The EU, agreeing to continue personal data transfers to the USA (EU/US Data Privacy Framework)

• The USA & EU

• All governments (W3PN note: count as one selection here)

Public figure (non-government related): 4

• Machi big brother doxing ZachXBT

• Emily Baker-White for doxxing @BasedBeffJezos

• ZachXBT  - reducing privacy might be positive!

• Limone.eth with the bot for points sellers

Notes

The majority of the contributions are public & can be found on Twitter: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 etc.

• Read the “Projects” category final longlist, “News & Events”, and “Innovations”.

• The next article featuring “Doxxers” (anti-privacy longlist) will be published tomorrow.

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