Welcome to this week’s BAT Community Update! Thank you to Dan Murphy for his contributions!



IMPORTANT: FAQ about Brave Rewards & Ads Support

Client Updates

Beta Channel v0.64.65

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v0.64.65

Dev Channel v0.65.78

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v0.65.78

Brave Team Tweets

Users remain anonymous with us — only those who want to withdraw have to KYC, and as we do not do the KYC (an arms length partner, starting with Uphold — we have Civic plans too — does it), there is no loss of anonymity. Also no browser history linkability, so no tracking ever. — BrendanEich (@BrendanEich) April 28, 2019 With Brave, users remain anonymous to us.

Having contextual ad partners like @BuySellAds

is a key piece on a new alternative path forward. @toddo and team have been excellent to work with, and am really excited for BSA to be a featured partner with our @Brave #Ads launch. https://t.co/RQzg35aHxQ — Luke Mulks (@lukemulks) April 26, 2019 Hooray for great ad partners!

Aiming for end of year. — Luke Mulks (@lukemulks) April 30, 2019 When are rewards coming to Thailand?﻿

If this amendment passes, then data brokers will be able to sell on people's intimate details about without restriction, so long as the sale purports to be for security or antifraud reasons. https://t.co/IeNzID6SJZ — Johnny Ryan (@johnnyryan) April 29, 2019 Johnny comments on a California amendment that could impact people’s intimate details



Cryptomining became a thing in September of 2017. In that same month @brianbondy updated the @brave browser to auto-block all drive-by mining attempts.



Today, in 2019, @Malwarebytes announces that "Cryptomining against consumers is essentially extinct."https://t.co/k94MxsSjKC pic.twitter.com/fWghDsMtfk — Sampson (@BraveSampson) April 30, 2019 ﻿Cryptomining against users is basically extinct.

We are hiring a general counsel for @Brave https://t.co/L33kKFACDQ — Johnny Ryan (@johnnyryan) May 2, 2019 Brave is hiring general counsel

BAT/Brave in the News

Johnny appears in the New York times and mentions voter profiling

“In the next election, I think it is inevitable that every single voter will have been profiled based on what they have been reading, watching and listening to for years online,” said Johnny Ryan, the chief policy officer at Brave, a private web browser that allows users to block ads and trackers.

Read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/30/opinion/privacy-targeted-advertising.html

News You Should Know

Brendan Eich appearing at Global Privacy Summit in Washington D.C.

Our CEO @BrendanEich will be at @PrivacyPros Global Privacy Summit in D.C. this Thursday to discuss why companies no longer need to follow a surveillance model to succeed.



Read the full text here: https://iapp.org/conference/global-privacy-summit/

The Terrible Truth About Alexa

“I read through a history of everything I’ve said to Alexa, and it felt a little bit like reading an old diary. Until I remembered that the things I’ve told Alexa in private are stored on an Amazon server and have possibly been read by an Amazon employee.”



Read the full text here: https://gizmodo.com/the-terrible-truth-about-alexa-1834075404

One Country Blocks the World on Data Privacy

Data privacy experts and regulators in other countries are questioning Ireland’s commitment to policing imminent privacy concerns like Facebook’s reintroduction of facial recognition software and data-sharing with its recently purchased subsidiary WhatsApp, and Google’s sharing of information across its burgeoning number of platforms.



Read the full text here: https://www.politico.eu/interactive/ireland-blocks-the-world-on-data-privacy/

Roaring Fans

You got to love @YouTube . If you visit YouTube you will get hit by more then 99 trackers and ads at the main page. Use @brave browser. #SafeBrowsing pic.twitter.com/6a29vWltGx — Crypto_night (@Manimj) May 1, 2019

Remember those early days of using Chrome? Back when the Web felt *fast*? I've been using @brave for just about six months now, and it feels like that again. [thread»] — ShriramKrishnamurthi (@ShriramKMurthi) April 26, 2019

https://twitter.com/rynfrd/status/1123824743239618568

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