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Laz Pieper

Laz Pieper is the research director at Coin Center, which defends the rights of individuals to build, use, and assemble free and open peer-to-peer networks, and the right to do so privately.

Laz Pieper

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Opinion

DHS’s predictive policing is unconstitutional, un-American and should be stopped

Targeting Americans based on what their spending habits can tell us about their politics is an abuse of our financial system, writes Coin Center’s Laz Pieper.

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Opinion

KYC data is an irresistible honeypot for hackers, and we must change how it is collected

Privacy-preserving identity verification systems could allow individuals to prove only what a service needs to know while keeping the underlying information under their control, writes Coin Center’s Laz Pieper.

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