The FATF recognises its human rights blind spot
For a while now, people like me, Ian Grigg and David Birch (top rank blockchain/payments experts) have been moaning on Twitter about how anti money laundering and Know-Your-Customer rules, despite being developed in good faith, have started to backfire on the system. Rather than curbing criminal financing, in many instances all they have done is add […]
Stuff I’ve been reading
Finance/Markets: The World Socialist Website is a feed available on Bloomberg. Are Pfizer’s lawyers getting a bit twitchy? (Q4 release adds some potentially concerning language: “…or further information regarding the quality of pre-clinical, clinical or safety data, including by audit or inspection…”) Used cars are still doing nicely. Big avocado news. Algos don’t do war […]
Guest Post: Let’s not make whistleblowing as difficult as possible
This is a contribution from Frank di Mauro, the founder of HaYa, an app and platform that facilitates whistleblowing and discrete communications. The Blind Spot has no stake in HaYa. The two entities are benefiting from cross promotion and access. (Frank gets promotion, The Blind Spot gets enterprise access to the HaYa platform.) In the […]