Morning Edition · Friday, September 25, 2026Published at 9:11 AM EDT · New York

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce Urges Regulators to Collect Less Data and Use Zero-Knowledge Proofs

In one of her final speeches as commissioner, Peirce proposed attribute-based verification in place of bulk personal-data collection, days after a phishing operator was sentenced to 12 years for stealing $16 million from Coinbase customers.

Speaking at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's digital assets conference in New York on September 23, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) commissioner Hester Peirce argued that financial regulators should requi…