7/ If you agree that building creative, optimistic solutions to problems like misinfo & surveillance is a better bet than doomerism, you're on our page. So help us out by sharing this thread. And drop us a line at agency.website if there's someone we MUST interview!

6/ That's why for our inaugural show, we invited @ironfish.bsky.social founder Elena Nadolinski to tell us how she's using ZK to build a compliant, privacy-first L1 to minimize the shards of you strewn across the internet & give you agency over who sees your data, what they see, why, and when.

5/ And new research on ZK machine learning (ZKML) is even exploring ways to protect data integrity and provenance in large language models and generative AI. Could ZK become our best defense against misinformation and deepfakes? We're optimistic.

4/ Zero knowledge cryptography offers a way to prove something without having to show you why it’s true, thereby protecting the underlying data. And it's already widely used as a crypto scaling solution and promises tons of privacy-preserving usecases.

3/ Your Likes & link trail are meticulously analyzed by machine learning models for precision nudging & irresistible microtargeting to get you to think, buy, or vote a certain way. Your data exhaust is the economic engine of the 21st century. Is it possible to imagine a new web?

2/ The modern internet has turned oversharing into a business model. Your address and phone number are confetti'd across a thousand websites and ad networks.

1/ Please delete your regularly scheduled programming and make way for The Privacy Podcast with your hosts @ana.bsky.social@chadfowler.bsky.social. We're just waiting for Apple Podcasts and Spotify to accept the RSS before dropping the episode, but here's what's in store...

Inspo posts is why you've reached influencer status.

Our first public artifact, The Privacy Podcast, is coming this summer. A bit of context in the thread below. If this resonates please RT to let others know!