stephenph on Nostr: Wow talk about a rabbit hole, this note led me full on to Alice's wonderland... ...

Wow talk about a rabbit hole, this note led me full on to Alice's wonderland... Zk-proofs, interoperable wallets, govt and corporations tracking via statistics. And creating ghost profiles using just the inexact specific bits of info that leak out. All of it is exciting and scary at the same time

Even with zk techniques just the speed and efficiency that our data can be tracked does not bode well for privacy. True, they may not have my exact birthdate, but they know I am between 60 and 65, have a medical condition, what state and probably what city I live in. What booze I drink, and on it goes. All with 95% accuracy

True privacy is about to get much harder. I am starting to think effort needs to be put into hiding your true identity and forming an alternate, disposable one. But how to do that without the new identity being your "true one". I guess because it is "disposable" you just remake yourself every decade or so.