Opinion
Will the sacrifice of our privacy help to stop, or at least reduce, the global spread of the coronavirus, and why the governments want to use the total mass surveillance?
Harry Halpin
The author is an independent contributor writing an opinion or expert take. Views expressed are the author’s own and may not reflect Cointelegraph’s editorial position. Harry Halpin is the co-founder and CEO of Nym Technologies. Nym Technologies was co-founded by chief technical officer Dave Hrycyszyn, who left Libra and now works on privacy; and Claudia Diaz, professor of privacy at KU Leuven. Harry received his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in informatics and has over 50 peer-reviewed publications. Prior to Nym, he conceived and managed cross-browser crypto implementation at the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT and was a research scientist at Inria, where he led the NEXTLEAP and PANORAMIX projects on building mixnets for high-risk users.
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