Nym CEO Harry Halpin tells The Agenda podcast that artificial intelligence makes it easier than ever to conduct surveillance against activists and dissidents.
With the recent conviction and sentencing of Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev, privacy and the right to use privacy technology are back in the spotlight.
Pertsev was convicted of money laundering by a Dutch court on May 14 and sentenced to 64 months in jail for his role in developing crypto mixer Tornado Cash. Many privacy advocates decried the conviction, calling it unjust and a government overreach.
More recently, on June 25, it was announced that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accepted a plea deal with the United States government that would see him plead guilty to one criminal count in exchange for his freedom from the British prison where he had been held since 2019 and an expected sentence of time served.
