This Friday, famed privacy activist Edward Snowden will be talking to Gavin Wood—, Creator of Polkadot, co-founder of Ethereum and coiner of the term “Web3”,—for a fireside chat at the BlockDown DeData conference, an event exploring data ownership, privacy, Web3, personal information security and self-governance in detail through panels, keynotes, fireside chats and debates.
Wood and Snowden have an extensive history, of sorts. After Snowden’s paradigm-shifting revelations about NSA surveillance, and the ways the US government—with the help of its allies and big business—were systematically monitoring the world’s citizens, Wood coined the term “post-Snowden” web to describe a future where the internet was less dominated by large, centralised forces.
“Web 3.0, or as might be termed the “post-Snowden” web, is a reimagination of the sorts of things that we already use the Web for,” Wood wrote in a blog post in 2014. “But with a fundamentally differen
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