Privacy is a basic right but today's blockchain apps and protocols mostly lack any privacy protection in their design or operation. This leads to problems in the short term like the potential for hacks, account takeovers, and others. And in the longterm it could lead to larger-scale problems like authoritarian surveillance and erosion of personal protections. No one has all the answers but several teams are working on this important issue. In this session we'll have a discussion about what's working now, what needs to change, and how we can build privacy into blockchains without centralization. We'll cover privacy in layer 1, layer 2 options, and building privacy into dApps.
Algorand
Head of Systems Research & Chief Technology Office
University of Cape Town
Associate Professor & Director of the Financial Innovation Lab
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Yossi Gilad’s work is focused on the design, construction, and analysis of secure and scalable networked systems. Prior to Algorand, Yossi Gilad was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT and Boston University. Before MIT/BU, he was a research staff member at IBM and also a postdoc researcher at the Hebrew University, Israel. Even before that he held research and engineering positions at Google, Marvell’s switching division, and Israel Defense Forces. Yossi Gilad completed his PhD at Bar Ilan University, Israel. He is a recipient of the IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize (2017), the IBM Research Inventor Recognition Award (2015), and the Check Point Institute for Information Security Prize (2013-2014).
The UCT Financial Innovation Lab is a new research hub for fintech in Africa. We bring together leading experts from academia, innovative entrepreneurs, and senior government officials to unlock the full potential of financial innovations for all in our society. For more details see http://www.finlab.org.za
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