Tech Policy Institute launches two-year study on financial privacy

The Bitcoin Policy Institute, the Cornell Tech Policy Institute, and Fedi are leading a new two-year integrated study on American attitudes toward financial privacy. The project is the first to systematically examine how public policy and enforcement shape both user behaviour and developer decisions around privacy technologies.

As Director Sarah Kreps notes, the study will move debates about privacy from the abstract to the evidential, tracking how policy signals affect public behaviour and developer choices over time.

The research combines nationally representative surveys of U.S. users with in-depth interviews of developers working on Bitcoin and related open-source systems, with four semi-annual reports beginning in April 2026 and running through 2027.