New Research Study from the Bitcoin Policy Institute, Fedi, and Cornell Brooks Tech Policy Institute is First to Examine Public Policy’s Effects on Privacy-related Decisions Among Users and Developers

Freedom and privacy have always sat at the heart of Bitcoin’s promise, but the world around it is changing fast. Regulation, enforcement actions, and expanding surveillance capabilities are reshaping how people approach privacy technologies.

To better understand the attitudes toward privacy technologies from both users and producers, Fedi is partnering with Cornell University’s Brooks School of Public Policy and the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) to field a two-year study examining this important topic.

“Debates about privacy often happen in the abstract and with little attention to the tradeoffs,” said Dr. Sarah Kreps, Director of the Tech Policy Institute at Cornell’s Brooks School of Public Policy. “This project brings empirical evidence to the conversation by examining how policy signals affect both public behavior and developer decisions, and how those dynamics interact over time.”

Study Takes Long-term Look at PrivacyStudy Takes Long-term Look at Privacy

Unearthing Insights from the User and Creators of Privacy TechnologiesUnearthing Insights from the User and Creators of Privacy Technologies

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