Web3’s role in protecting digital rights and privacy in 2025
According to Edison Chen, CEO of Web3 health and safety company CUDIS, decentralized identity solutions, data ownership and protection of sensitive data will be key objectives for Web3 in 2025.
The CEO told Cointelegraph that unveiling a choice of decentralized identity solutions will allow users to control their data and monetize this data in the process. Chen said:
“Historically, big companies have controlled user data, often monetizing it without permission. That's changing. People now want to own their data and decide how it's shared and monetized.”
Disclosure of this choice is key to protecting privacy, especially in healthcare, where medical records are a right to privacy, and advances in artificial intelligence threaten to protect this privacy, the CEO told Cointelegraph.
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Privacy challenges in the world of AI and quantum computers
David Holtzman – a former military intelligence expert, White House adviser and chief strategy officer of the Naoris decentralized security protocol – recently warned Cointelegraph about the privacy risks posed by AI and quantum computers.
According to Holtzman, author of Privacy Lost: How Technology Threatens Your Privacy, centralized data repositories are inherently insecure because of single points of failure.
This threat is further amplified by AI systems that can quickly compile and accurately target victims, such as blockchain transaction data – such as blockchain transaction data – related to an individual or institution that can be exploited by a related actor.
Quantum computers that threaten to break modern encryption standards are a threat to financial institutions, military intelligence, cryptocurrencies and healthcare, Hoetzmann said.
Thankfully, both of these risks can be mitigated with decentralized blockchain technologies, he added.
Artificial intelligence creates checks on decentralized human-controlled AI systems, and quantum-resistant cryptography can protect sensitive data from quantum attacks, a Naoris executive told Cointelegraph.
In the year In July 2024, Tether CEO Paolo Arduino argued that localizing AI models is the only way to ensure user privacy, freedom from corporate control, and protect centralized servers from hacking.
The Tether CEO wrote that the current generation of smartphones and laptops were more than powerful enough to run custom-tailored AI solutions directly on those devices — bypassing the need to rely on large, centralized companies and servers.
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