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Tag: Lyudmyla Kozlovska
When The Financial System Can’t Reach People In Crisis, Bitcoin Can
(…) This compliance bottleneck can also paralyze global human rights groups. Lyudmyla Kozlovska, President of the Open Dialogue Foundation, says her organisation experienced this when platforms like PayPal, GoFundMe and Wise blocked their fundraising appeals for Ukraine during the critical first months of the 2022 Russian invasion. Using bitcoin, the foundation was able to bypass […]
EU Chat Control extension is an insult to democracy
“The re-elected Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party (ALDE) President Svenja Hahn called the vote “a disgrace”, warning that it “opens the door for mass surveillance of all private communication” and that “the surveillance of private chats pushed by EU states is a threat for our freedom and democracy.” Lyudmyla Kozlovska of the Open Dialogue […]
Chat Control 1.0 passed the European Parliament — through the back door
(…) The President of the Open Dialogue Foundation, Lyudmyla Kozlovska commented for EUTechLoop that the vote on Chat Control 1.0 should be viewed in a broader context of erosion of privacy in the EU: “That vote should trouble anyone who cares about how democracy in the EU works, not just about privacy. It’s the same […]
OSCE PA Hosts First Hearing on Transnational Financial Repression
Authoritarian regimes, including states already under Western sanctions, exploit anti-money laundering rules, INTERPOL’s notice systems, and mutual legal assistance treaties to freeze accounts, access private data, and destroy the livelihoods of their critics in democratic countries. The system allows it because it was built on an assumption of good faith that no longer holds. On […]
Orwellian outcomes: Chat Control 1.0 adopted by the EP
“Chat Control 1.0 – a temporary derogation from ePrivacy rules designed to detect online child sexual abuse – was adopted by the European Parliament today. The regulation would remain in effect until 3 April 2028, providing a substantial buffer while lawmakers negotiate an agreement on the updated framework, Chat Control 2.0. (…) The President of the Open […]
OSCE warns against Russia’s ‘weaponisation of Interpol’
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MEPs condemn regimes that pursue critics abroad
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Financial repression: How Europe’s banks landed in the authoritarian toolbox
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Pawłowicz Loses Court Case Against the Foundation, Ordered to Publish an Apology
Krystyna Pawłowicz has lost a court case against the Open Dialogue Foundation (ODF). The former Law and Justice (PiS) MP and Constitutional Tribunal judge has been ordered to apologize for posts she published on X (formerly Twitter) in 2019. “For years, PiS politicians tried to destroy us with lies, hate campaigns and propaganda,” Marcin Mycielski, […]
Krystyna Pawłowicz and Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk Lose Court Cases Against the Open Dialogue Foundation. They Have Been Ordered to Apologise to Its President
A former Law and Justice (PiS) MP and Constitutional Tribunal judge, as well as a current PiS MP, have been ordered to apologise to Lyudmyla Kozlovska, President of the Open Dialogue Foundation (ODF), for a series of “false statements” they disseminated about her and the organisation she leads. This took place during the PiS government’s […]
Fourth Episode of Cypher Tank: Space for Non-Profit Startups
The penultimate episode of the Bitcoin web series dedicated to startups is now online. For the first time, non-profit projects take center stage: three initiatives competing to defend privacy, human rights, and the integrity of public documents through decentralized technologies and Bitcoin. After three episodes dedicated to for-profit startups, which we covered in recent weeks, […]
Lyudmyla Kozlovska, Ukrainian activist: “I support elections in Ukraine — the question is how to protect them from Russia.”
The president of the Open Dialogue Foundation, born in Sevastopol, believes that “no one in Ukraine should be blamed for speaking Russian.” And that although “Ukraine will win, the trauma of this war will remain part of our history.” Ukrainian activist Lyudmyla Kozlovska has chaired the Open Dialogue Foundation since 2009 and runs campaigns to […]
Daniel Eck: CDU/CSU Against Preventive Chat Control — “This Is Out of the Question”
In the ongoing debate over the so-called ChatControl — an EU proposal that would enable large-scale scanning of private online messages to detect illegal content — Daniel Eck, a German political commentator associated with the center-right CDU/CSU camp, has voiced his opposition. In his statement, Eck clearly rejected the concept of “anlasslose Chatkontrolle,” or chat […]
Open Dialogue Foundation Joins Bitcoin News to Discuss Bitcoin’s Role in Defending Human Rights
The Open Dialogue Foundation recently sat down with Bitcoin News to share how Bitcoin is being used as a lifeline against financial repression. In the interview, our president Lyudmyla Kozlovska described how authoritarian regimes weaponize financial systems to silence activists, and how Bitcoin in self-custody remains one of the few tools that enables humanitarian aid, […]
