How important is privacy? A recent tweet by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik is worth pondering. He publicly supports privacy technology developers, emphasizing that personal information protection has become a fundamental safeguard against risks in the digital age.

This is not an extreme view. Vitalik points out a real contradiction: governments and institutions hold vast amounts of personal data but have failed to ensure information security. Instead, these databases frequently become targets for hackers, and even when outsourced to private companies, they are resold, ultimately flowing into unknown entities.

From a different perspective, your financial data, location information, and behavioral records, once centralized, become high-risk assets. The vulnerability of centralized storage is obvious—no matter how advanced the technology, there are always loopholes where humans are involved. This is also why privacy protection tools continue to attract attention in the Web3 space, and decentralized data management is emerging as a new direction of exploration. Privacy is not about avoidance but a fundamental safeguard of personal rights.