Vitalik: Privacy is the guarantee of freedom, order and progress

On April 14th, Vitalik Buterin wrote an article today saying that he supports privacy not only because it is the guarantee of personal freedom, but also the cornerstone of social order and technological progress. The article pointed out that decentralization and privacy are inseparable, and the current AI and big data have greatly enhanced the risk of centralized control of personal information. Vitalik stressed that cryptographic technologies such as ZK-SNARKs are empowering to protect identity information and enable secure data computing. He called for strengthening the open-source, universal and trustworthy digital privacy tools to counter the potential global trend of data hegemony.