SEC to Host Crypto Roundtable on Financial Privacy and Surveillance in October

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that its Crypto Task Force will host a roundtable on financial privacy and surveillance at its Washington headquarters on October 17.

Running from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., the event will explore how emerging technologies can safeguard individual privacy while giving regulators better tools to manage risks. Commissioner Hester Peirce, who leads the Task Force, said new privacy-preserving tools are essential for protecting sensitive financial data while enabling smarter policy. The roundtable is part of the SEC’s broader effort to move away from “regulation by enforcement” toward clearer crypto rules, with previous sessions covering DeFi, tokenization, custody, and trading. The event will be open to the public with advance registration.

Clever Robot News Desk 9^th September 2025