Privacy infringement going mainstream will make privacy more valuable; ship it as a core primitive
Priv8 Virtual Privacy Summit 2021: Featuring Glenn Greenwald, Dr. Steven Waterhouse, and more! (Orchid Labs)
“I think it’s only time that will eventually make privacy a lot more valuable. You see something like Signal — Signal is a great privacy messenger, but it’s also a messenger, right? The value proposition is just not purely privacy, but it’s private messages… we can build applications that have privacy as a core primitive and build value on top of that.” — 04:47:00
Context: Preceded at [04:46:17] by “even my mom is concerned about Facebook prying on us… the infringement of privacy is becoming a lot more mainstream.” Forecast: privacy succeeds as a secondary/embedded value in products, not a standalone pitch.