The U.S. SEC will hold a roundtable on cryptocurrency privacy issues on December 15

According to Cryptopolitan, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) cryptocurrency task force has announced a roundtable meeting on December 15 to specifically discuss the growing issues of privacy and financial surveillance within the cryptocurrency ecosystem. The meeting will invite leaders from the crypto industry to explore the challenges faced by the industry and potential solutions alongside SEC officials.

The backdrop for this meeting is the recent widespread attention on privacy issues in the crypto industry, including the partial guilty verdict against Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm, the sentencing of Samourai Wallet developers, and the significant rise in the prices of privacy coins over the past two months.

It is noteworthy that Matthew Galeotti, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, stated in August that the department would cease the practice of prosecuting developers solely for writing open-source code, emphasizing that writing code itself does not constitute a crime in the absence of malicious intent.