alt Hacker NewsWe should really move to a different security model on the internet.
For example, when I buy something from a webshop, why does that webshop need my personal information? Why can't I give it a token, which it can then use to send my package, because only the postal system knows the address coupled to the token, etc.
And we should also ban user tracking for advertising purposes, obviously.
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tokioyoyo • today at 10:11 PM
Anything that adds friction is a big no-go in any real commerce world.
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zadler • today at 9:40 PM
What kind of political / economic system would make user privacy a priority? I'm guessing not finance capital neoliberalism...
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We are working on this better model in the Ethereum ecosystem via technologies like Zero Knowledge Proofs and private attestations. The Ethereum Attestation Service has been using the example of proving to the bartender that you are over 21 without disclosing your birth date. https://docs.attest.org/docs/core--concepts/privacy
This is all new and rapidly evolving technology but giving apps / agents / others just the information they need to know while having a credibly neutral, private, and trustless database mediating is a true cypherpunk vision of how the internet should work and it's being built by people with the right ethos and principles to be as reliable, well engineered, and long lasting as the internet itself.