The 2nd annual DC Privacy Summit is in the books! It was a full day of open, good-faith discussion about emerging privacy technologies and the questions they raise in the legal and policy arena. The pace of the law is much slower than the rate at which these tools are evolving,

A group of everyday Americans was forced to learn how Ethereum works and this was the result

Watch the full panel discussion, entitled "How to Avoid a Dystopian Digital ID System," here:

The digital identity wallet the EU is developing has a big privacy problem. At the DC Privacy Summit last month, @therealyingtong explained how that problem could have been avoided.

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Good conversation about cooperation between government, non-profit (SEAL), companies, and protocols to defend against hacks/thefts: https://t.co/OEPKkR85Z8 From the Pretty Good Policy “DC Privacy Summit”.

Watch Arnaud's full talk here:

At the DC Privacy Summit last month, @_ArnaudS_ had a message for non-technical folks, and especially policymakers: You are likely underestimating the power of modern cryptographic tools—and their potential to disrupt how the world works.

For a full recap of the discussion, which also featured @JayCStanley, check out the latest edition of the Project Glitch newsletter:

Appearing remotely from Australia at the most recent @pgpforcrypto meeting in DC, @artieart88 argued that today in AI, "data is power"—and this power is too centralized.

Solving the data ownership problem will require partnerships across private and public sector. Thanks @JayCStanley @ACLU and @projectglitch_ for your hard-hitting work.

Thanks @artieart88 and @JayCStanley for a fascinating conversation. Really interested to see where things go from here.

Read the article here:

The latest newsletter is out! In this issue, we recapped a recent @pgpforcrypto discussion featuring @JayCStanley of the @ACLU and @artieart88 of @vana, which raised some crucial questions about the future of AI. (Link in the thread)

Watch Matt's full talk here:

A privacy forest fire is coming, @matthew_d_green warned at the DC Privacy Summit. Vast amounts of centralized data collection is the dry timber. Governments binding human identities to online actions and pushing to weaken encryption is the accelerant. And the final ingredient:

still thinking about how insane this is

Watch @_weidai's full talk here:

At the DC Privacy Summit, @_weidai called onchain privacy a "dual-use technology" like nuclear physics.

Watch @neha's full talk here:

Technologies like zero-knowledge proofs, verifiable credentials, multi-party computation, and fully homomorphic encryption are "truly extraordinary," @neha said at the DC Privacy Summit. "But we need to be precise about what they can and can't do."