Blockchain Revolution

5.
Privacy
Principle: People should control their own data. Period. People ought to have the
right to decide what, when, how, and how much about their identities to share with
anybody else. Respecting one’s right to privacy is not the same as actually respecting
one’s privacy. We need to do both. By eliminating the need to trust others, Satoshi
eliminated the need to know the true identities of those others in order to interact with
them. “I’ve spoken to many engineers and computer scientists, and they all tell me—
every single one—‘Of course, we can embed privacy into data architecture, into the
design of the programs. Of course we can,’”
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said Ann Cavoukian.