They're Already Arresting Privacy Developers

Why It Matters

If privacy tooling and education don’t scale quickly, users of decentralized systems risk criminalization and surveillance despite censorship-resistant protocols, threatening the real-world viability of Web3. The legal and enforcement environment is shifting against builders, so industry action and funding are urgent to preserve safe access to decentralized tech.

Summary

A longtime crypto and decentralized-tech advocate says his focus shifted from permissionless infrastructure to privacy after realizing that censorship-resistant protocols can still expose and endanger individual users. He warns governments are already targeting privacy developers and rolling back legal protections for builders of decentralized software, making private-use skills and tooling essential. He argues decentralization alone doesn’t equal privacy—public blockchains and flawed UX leak identities through many touchpoints—and the developer community must rapidly build usable privacy tools. He’s launched an organization to support this work and push the ecosystem to catch up with an expanding surveillance state.

Original Description

Decentralized tech promises freedom from gatekeepers, but if you don't know how to use it privately, individuals can still be targeted even when the system itself can't be shut down. @NaomiBrockwellTV explains why pseudonymity was never the same as privacy, how Bitcoin's "just don't link your real-world identity" advice was always flawed, and what the Web3 world is finally starting to wake up to.

This is a clip from our full interview with @NaomiBrockwellTV Watch the complete conversation here: https://youtu.be/0_hlkmpw1sk

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