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What does Privacy mean to you? - Web3Privacy Now

Ethereum Cypherpunk CongressThu, Oct 9, 2025, 12:00 AM

We asked some friends a simple questions: What does privacy mean to you? Try to answer in the comments and try to express your thoughts about this topic. You will understand that to find the origin of the "why Privacy matters" is the most important thing for you, for us, and ofc for this movement. Because Privacy is a personal choice in a collective world. Every answers count. Our friends in the video: Eleftherios - Co-Founder of Radicle Kate Stapleton - Head of Community for Inco Kassandra - Silviculture Society Auryn Macmillan - Founder of Gnosis Guild Sebastian Bürgel - Gnosis VP Technology & HOPR Founder Josh - Writer / Podcaster for The Blockchain Socialist Antonio Seveso - CTO & Co-founder @ fluidkey Ann Brody - Co-founder of Modulo Labs Max Hampshire - Lead DevRel / Integrations @ Nym Ameen Soleimani - OxBow / Moloch DAO Lefteris - Rotki

Transcript

What does privacy mean to me?

Give me one second and I think about that.

I know the answer.

Privacy means freedom. Freedom because it gives you the choice to encrypt or non- encrypt your data and to be in control of how you show up online.

Freedom and human coordination. Privacy means that I am enabled to interact with technology that cannot be used against me. Privacy means sovereignty. It means choice. It means I get to consent to what I share with others.

Share the data that I want with whomever I watch.

The ability to be authentic, to be honest, and to selectively reveal myself to the world and connect with the world on my own terms.

Privacy to me, I think, is both a fundamental liberty and a critical system design component. It's a way of uh achieving outcomes as well as uh not achieving undesirable outcome.

On one end, it can be something for solidarity. On the other end, it can be used for things that are not so good for uh a collective to experience as a society.

Uh privacy is the freedom from the cop inside your own head and other people's. Privacy is a way for us to uh have control over the construction of our identity. Without privacy, maybe there is no identity.

Privacy is being able to be yourself no matter where you are.

You know, that's it. [Music]

Automatic transcript — names and jargon may be misspelled.