Consensys, which drew the reaction of the crypto money industry with its data privacy policy published on its crypto wallet Metamask last month, announced that it plans to change its policy after the reactions.
Ethereum (ETH) Developing software on the network Consensys December 6 announced on its official website that it plans to store only the IP addresses and wallet data of Metamask users for up to seven days.
When it published its data privacy policy in the first days of November, reaction collector Consensys, with its last statement, stated that they deleted the user data after keeping it for a while, and that with the next update, they will only keep the user IP and wallet data, and this retention period will be added. to seven days Said they would try to download it.
Consensys stated that it collected data such as name, surname, age and gender when it first published its data policy, as well as credit and debit card information, payment habits, user data. IP addresses and Ethereum purse their addresses He also announced that he had collected Users reacted to the company, arguing that the collection of such sensitive data could cause serious security weaknesses and violate user privacy.
The company on the other hand remote procedure call (RPC) provider Infura Users who try to provide data privacy by using different RPC services by bypassing may need to take different precautions because each RPC’s own privacy policy stated that. Underlining that they keep user data safe, the company said, “We just don’t want to scare people into looking for alternatives. cautious we behave” used the phrases.