# A war between privacy and surveillance; centralized databases always leak

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-12-05
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Weekly - November 30th 2022 (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:02:50 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM-WU0TaynU&t=170s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-12-05-a-war-between-privacy-and-surveillance-centralized-d3z2/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "A war between privacy and surveillance; centralized databases always leak," Akash Weekly - November 30th 2022 (Akash Network), 5 Dec 2022, 00:02:50. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM-WU0TaynU&t=170s

## Quote — verbatim

> There is a war that's more apparent now between the advocates of privacy and the advocates of surveillance... The fact that there is a database somewhere sitting that has your IP addresses and your transaction history is fundamentally dangerous, because this database is never secure... Last thing I want is my information with my public IP address, with all the transaction history associated, by name... on the dark web — and we know that's going to happen.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Reacting to ConsenSys's privacy policy allowing IP/transaction logging; his argument that protocols must be built so they "cannot collect information" rather than promise not to.