Kraken: Privacy Is Not a Crime

Secrecy is a lie. Privacy is a crime. Not sharing is withholding potential evidence. This is where we are headed...unless we demand the same of governments and corporations, and the powerful.

Am I missing something? Why is this Tweet on the front page of HN? Just a statement to spark some discussion?

Some privacy certainly is a crime. It's not unethical to commit that crime. Nothing whatsoever restricts laws from only criminalizing unethical behavior.

we have indecency laws that make it a crime to not avail oneself of a private location when particular human behaviours must occur.<p>its also a crime to invade the sanctity of such things.<p>its also psychologicaly damaging to be under conitions of constant surviellance.<p>anyone who thinks its desireable to eliminate privacy must recon with the above.

I agree, but there are questions in my head.<p>If the &quot;private&quot; information is that you killed 500 people (you&#x27;re basically a Dexter), what do we do with that private information?

Can we stop linking to tweets? There’s 0 context unless you login. Even paywalled articles often give you more than that.

kraken getting hit by the SEC?

If you can&#x27;t take down crypto, plant your agent (Binance in this case) and destroy it from within.

Context: Kraken is the only US-based cryptocurrency exchange which supports Monero, the top untraceable privacy coin of today.<p>Binance, the world&#x27;s largest exchange by volume, yesterday announced the de-listing of Monero, triggering a price crash of 38%.<p>Kraken&#x27;s post is in response to a Monero tweet. Privacy coins are akin to cash and legal in most jurisdictions, but are facing aggressive de-listing by exchanges with low regulatory risk tolerances. Kraken stands strong following explicit US laws rather than the extra-judicial whims of compliance teams.

Privacy from the public is absolutely not a crime. Privacy from the government when it comes to finances may be a different matter. It&#x27;s important to be able to separate these two, which is difficult, in part because governments are making it difficult to do so.