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

News on April 14th, Vitalik Buterin wrote today that he supports privacy not only because it guarantees personal freedom, but also because it is the cornerstone of social order and technological progress. The article points out that decentralization and privacy are inseparable, and current AI and big data greatly enhance the risk of centralized control over personal information. Vitalik emphasized that cryptographic technologies such as ZK-SNARKs are empowering to protect identity information and achieve secure data computation. He called for strengthening the open source, universality, and credibility of digital privacy tools to counter potential global data hegemony trends.