Is Hidden Crypto Mining in Your Browser a GDPR Violation? | Groundbreaking Research #news #crypto

Is Hidden Crypto Mining in Your Browser a GDPR Violation? | Groundbreaking Research #news #crypto

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Publish Date:
7 November, 2025
Category:
Data Mining
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📍Your browser just started mining crypto. Did you give consent?

💥 Is your data #GDPR compliant in the Crypto world?

A powerful research piece — More than 5 years old but still ahead of its time.

It exposed how hidden crypto mining scripts can exploit user browsers without consent.

Editor in Chief: Prof. Dr Naseem Naqvi MBE FBBA

Author: Christopher Mondschein

#GDPR #Mining #Blockchain #Web3 #Crypto

The JBBA, the Journal of the British Blockchain Association, is a peer reviewed, fully open access, academic journal devoted to Blockchain & other Distributed Ledger Technologies and Cryptocurrencies. The journal is available both in print, and online.

The JBBA is a fully open access journal offering a wide ranging and comprehensive coverage of all facets of DLT/ Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrencies. We welcome manuscripts reporting Blockchain and DLT research projects, scientific methods, case studies, analysis, reviews and practical use cases of emerging distributed ledger technologies and new innovations including sound descriptive work.

We publish:

Original Scientific Research (Qualitative, Quantitative)
Randomised Control Trials
Systematic Reviews
Meta-analysis
Conference Research Abstracts
Comparative studies
Case Studies & Essays
Book Reviews
PhD/MSc thesis & Dissertations
Critical reviews and Analysis
Interviews/ Opinions of Key Influencers/ Thought Leaders
Editorial
Commentary on latest issues and trends in blockchain & DLT

Aims & Scope of the Journal:
The JBBA attempts to cover the state-of-the-art advances in all aspects of blockchain technology. The international and multidisciplinary nature of this field enables us to cover both theoretical research and technological developments. The JBBA welcome contributions from blockchain scholars & scientists worldwide and will provide a forum for authors to share their knowledge, skills and experiences across a wide range of industries and technologies in which Blockchain is being deployed. The possible topics include but are not limited to:

• Blockchain and Gov-tech
• Cryptocurrencies & Crypto-assets
• Blockchain in Healthcare
• Blockchain in Supply Shain
• Blockchain governance
• Blockchain & Law
• Blockchain & Economics
• Applied Blockchain
• Initial Coin Offerings
• Blockchain for Social Good
• Blockchain and Smart Cities
• Theories of blockchain and its evolution
• Smart contract and Distributed Ledger
• Blockchain and Bitcoin security
• Distributed consensus on resource-limited devices
• Lightweight protocols and algorithms based on blockchain
• Blockchain based IoT security solutions
• Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence
• Blockchain in Social Networking

Open Access Policy:
In the best interests of the scientific blockchain community, the JBBA will be freely accessible via the internet for immediate, worldwide, open access, to the full text (with no embargo) of all articles. The JBBA applies the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY) under which all readers will be able to download and/or print any article at no cost, with no requirements of prior permission from the author or the publisher. We embed machine-readable CC licensing information in article level metadata. We allow readers to read, download, copy, distribute, reuse, remixing, print, search, or link to the full texts of all articles in accordance with a CC-BY policy and allow the author to hold the copyright without restrictions.

Authors who publish in the journal will retain these copyrights at all times. The journal allows the author(s) to retain publishing rights without restrictions. The journal also allows software/spiders to automatically crawl the journal content (also known as text mining). We intend to provide article level metadata to DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals).

The JBBA provide permanent and unique Digital Object Identifiers (doi) in all papers published by the journal.

The JBBA provides a forum for authors to share their knowledge, skills, experiences and creative work across a wide range of industries and technologies in which Blockchain is being deployed.

The JBBA follows the continuous publication model and publish content on a real-time basis on the journal's website. All articles are published on line as soon as they become ready.

The JBBA Editorial Office:
The British Blockchain Association
Kemp House 152 - 160 City Road
London, United Kingdom
EC1V 2NX
https://www.britishblockchainassociation.org/jbba
Email: [email protected]

Editor in Chief:
Dr. Naseem Naqvi FBBA FRCP MAcadMedEd FHEA

Digital object identifiers (doi) and Cross Ref:
The JBBA is a member of Cross Ref (https://www.crossref.org/).