The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a privacy-oriented NGO, has criticized President Biden’s new infrastructure bill, which the EFF claims will increase the government’s ability to surveil everyday crypto users.
“This outcome could be disastrous for the crypto space in the United States,” Marta Belcher, a cryptocurrency and civil liberty attorney who serves as special counsel to the EFF, told Decrypt.
In a Twitter thread, the organization outlined six fundamental reasons why the bill would do significant harm to the American crypto industry.
EFF’s arguments
First and foremost, EFF claims the bill will lead to more surveillance against cryptocurrency users, which of course flies in the face of the organization’s commitment to digital privacy.
The bill could also force software creators—and entities that do not custody cryptocurrency for others like miners—to “implement cumbersome surveillance systems or stop offering services in the United States.”
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