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VOTE: Cast Your Vote for Brave CEO & Co-Founder Brendan Eich’s Talk at the SXSW 2020 Conference

Community voting for the SXSW PanelPIcker is open until August 23! In his presentation, Surveillance Capitalism & A Broken Ad Ecosystem, Brendan Eich will lead an eye-opening discussion about the surveillance capitalism corrupting the digital world today and what a privacy-by-default future should, and will, look like.



Vote for his discussion here: http://bit.ly/2GWsTJV

AWARD: Brave’s Luke Mulks among DMN’s 2019 40UNDER40 Award Winners

We are proud to announce that Luke Mulks, director of business development at Brave, was recognized as one of the top 40 game-changers impacting the marketing and advertising industry for the 2019 DMN 40under40 Awards.



See Brave’s blog post here:

https://www.dmnews.com/home/article/21080675/2019s-40under40-winners

BLOG: IAB Europe refuses to answer Irish Data Protection Commission

Dublin, Ireland, 9 August 2019 —- Today, the Irish Data Protection Commission informed Dr Johnny Ryan of Brave, the private web browser, that IAB Europe has ignored its questions concerning his GDPR complaint against IAB Europe’s unlawful cookie wall.



Despite multiple attempts to obtain a response, IAB Europe has refused to reply to the Irish Data Protection Commission.

IMPORTANT: Official BAT Telegram is Now for Announcements Only

Our official BAT Telegram channel launched in March 2018. In a little over a year, the channel has grown to over 14,000 members.



As of today, we’re changing our official BAT Telegram (@BATProject) into an Announcements channel. Community members within Telegram can follow new updates from the project, but will not be able to post directly in the main chat.

MEDIA: See GO.Exchange (Omise)’s enthusiastic writeup about how BAT & Brave are revolutionizing the digital advertising space and denominating human attention in BAT

There is tremendous opportunity for disruption in the attention economy. It will not be easy, as the power is so concentrated in a few entities. However, there is one player poised to take this concentration of power and return it to the user. That is Brave Software, Inc.



Brave’s grand vision is to take the entire advertising industry from the grasp of middlemen and platforms and decentralize it entirely. The benefits for users, publishers, and advertisers will be great.



Brave is a breakthrough in the digital advertising industry and how attention can be valued, and one of the most consumer-ready use cases in cryptocurrencies.



Read the full text here: https://medium.com/@GOExchange/basic-attention-token-denominating-attention-65022411d5fd

Client Updates

Beta Channel v0.68.121

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v0.68.122

Release Channel v0.67.124

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v0.67.124

Dev Channel v0.69.100

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v0.69.101

iOS 1.11

This is a small release with some nice improvements.

We’ve added a new Private Tab option on the home screen when you Force Touch the app icon.

Improved the video size when the device orientation changes.

Housekeeping and a few other small fixes.

https://github.com/brave/brave-ios/releases/tag/v1.11

Brave Team Tweets

The @IAB must do better. Its CEO @r2rothenberg has been strongly and publicly rebuked by key people at the NYT and Washington Post after he attacks the head of a publisher body and criticizes privacy protections. https://t.co/a9yEKTTlRv — Johnny Ryan (@johnnyryan) August 5, 2019 Opinions on the IAB from Johnny.

Time for change at @IAB. https://t.co/x4gzTfTyP0 — Johnny Ryan (@johnnyryan) August 5, 2019 How does Johnny feel about the IAB? 🙂

The IAB is currently pushing for forced consent walls in the #ePrivacy Regulation, which is crazy. For example, Facebook would be able to force users to consent to it sharing their data with partners like CA, otherwise Facebook could deny them access to the newsfeed. https://t.co/2LbWpMLEEe — Johnny Ryan (@johnnyryan) August 5, 2019 No no, IAB.

YubiKey 5Ci support is now on the latest version of the @Brave #iOS app. With the YubiKey 5Ci keys available soon, your online browsing is about to get a lot more secure! Stop by our booth: 465 to see a preview demo at #BHUSA pic.twitter.com/8grE6zoQgr — Yubico (@Yubico) August 7, 2019 YubiKey 5Ci support is on iOS!

Today's desktop browser update is now live (0.67.124)!



Release notes available here: https://t.co/hkO9136AVD



Get Brave at https://t.co/TjVpCpUpZw — Brave Software (@brave) August 7, 2019 Make sure to update!

News You Should Know

TruSignal has data on 247m US citizens, 350m phones and 3.7bn email addresses: https://t.co/DSpkCptFIN



It sells data to/via Google (https://t.co/8mPEFPQkUq), Salesforce (https://t.co/I2nsuRISke), LiveRamp (https://t.co/PExyqB9TXH), Oracle (https://t.co/3ITF8e3bjB) and others. pic.twitter.com/c572FUYnnF — Wolfie Christl (@WolfieChristl) August 5, 2019 Did you know?

Don’t miss this epic Twitter fight between the IAB’s CEO and actual publishers

Grab popcorn. As internet fights go, this one deserves your full attention — because the fight is over your attention.

How Google is building a browser monopoly

Chrome is becoming the new Internet Explorer.

Roaring Fans

https://twitter.com/ChrisBlec/status/1159159453066977285

Just got our first payout from @brave and wanted to say thank you to the BraveRewards Program and the community for supporting our work. Every 'bat' counts, much appreciated 🙏 — Etherscan.io (@etherscan) August 5, 2019