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Link: Web3 is a privacy nightmare

This beautifully answers some Questions I Had about privacy, the blockchain and rights for data to be erased.

Well worth watching.

The belief that the world will be fairer if the rules are enshrined in code enforced by computers, and made extremely difficult to change or circumvent is laughable. It’s not merely naive but ahistoric.

Once again, I’m reminded of Nicole Perlroth’s book: there’s a story about cyber security experts being wildly overoptimistic about how many lines of code they could guarantee would be hack-free.

Feels like there are parallels here.