Web3 Foundation is building an internet where users are in control of their own data, identity and destiny. Primary projects include @Polkadot & @kusamanetwork.
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This video was recorded seven years ago at the @Web3summit, but the ideas @Snowden raises feel as pertinent today as ever.
From privacy and surveillance to the power technology companies and governments hold over our data, the questions he raises have only become more important as more of our lives move online.
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This Short is taken from a longer conversation exploring privacy, technology, power, and the future of the internet.
The full talk: piped.video/watch?v=pXksLYW4…
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I'll be at Dark Prague 3-5 October and giving a talk - "Prove You’re Human. Keep Everything Else Private.” darkprague.com/
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All week, you’ve heard about the need for more regulation and safety concerns around AI. We're looking at this through a slightly different lens. Consider this...
The biggest beneficiaries of tougher AI rules may actually be the companies those rules are meant to keep in check, because if only the largest labs can afford compliance, regulation can become a moat, and AI governance should reduce concentrated power, not lock it in.
Either way, it's a debate.
If you’re not sure what we mean by the call for tougher AI rules. Some refs below👇
📸 Credit: Stop the AI Race / Rachel Shu
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⚠️ A major Polkadot Product Devnet update is rolling out.
A big update is coming to the @Polkadot Product Devnet, along with new mobile and desktop apps.
If you’re already using the Devnet, there are a few quick things you need to do:
1. Back up your recovery phrase if you want to keep access to deployed sites
2. Clear your existing backup
3. Uninstall the app
4. Install the new version
Full details 👇
docs.polkadotcommunity.found…
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9 in 10 people accept a privacy policy in under 10 seconds. Only 1 to 3% read it in full. 📖
Facebook's alone would take you around 50 minutes.
This creates a system where users supply the inputs while platforms capture most of the economic return.
@Web3foundation's research👇
The value of a typical US user's data is nearly $400k over a digital lifetime. Nearly all of it captured by someone other than the person who generated it.
So what does Polkadot do differently?
It starts with open-source technology and gives people the tools to decide what they reveal, to whom, and how.
Data ownership never leaves the user in the first place.
That is the opposite of how the current tech paradigm works, where you hand everything over and hope for the best.
Digital ownership isn't just about owning files.
It's about owning choices.
👉 web3.foundation/insights/
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The best technology disappears into the background.
It serves people.
It doesn't ask people to serve it.
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AI is changing what “anonymous” means.
A new study used AI agents, mobility traces, and public web data to correctly identify 18 of 43 participants.
Average: 17 minutes and $2.24 per target.
Privacy can’t depend on data being too hard to connect anymore.
Read the paper → arxiv.org/html/2606.27936v1
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.@BillLaboon at the @SALTConference on exactly this issue.
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Digital ownership isn't just about owning files.
It's about owning choices.
👉 web3.foundation/insights/
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The internet isn't finished.
It's still being designed.
If we started again today...
...what would we build differently?
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The ambition is larger than a community app.
It is infrastructure through which communities can organize, communicate, and exchange on their own terms.
Infrastructure they help shape that supports the social fabric already present, rather than replacing it with another platform.
As Socialtec puts it: “This is really technology for the commons.”
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The biggest digital markets aren't always the most visible. Sometimes the most valuable transactions happen entirely behind the scenes.
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