Industry executives: Centralized systems are vulnerable to abuse and pose a threat to privacy

David Holtzman, a former military intelligence expert, author, White House advisor and chief strategy officer of decentralized security protocol Naoris, recently said that centralized data systems are vulnerable to abuse by state and corporate actors because they have only one point of control. “The whole problem with a centralized system is that it has a center,” Holtzman said in an interview, arguing that advances in artificial intelligence and quantum computers further threaten the security of such systems. Both threats can be mitigated, he added. Decentralizing AI through blockchain adds human checks to AI, while quantum-resistant algorithms can protect private data. However, the threat of centralized institutional power remains a problem, with Holtzman saying: “I think humanity should make some changes because we have given institutions too much power over the past 50 years - not just the military. Right now, in most Western countries, corporations have amazing power that they didn’t have in the 1950s and 1960s.” Decentralizing data information systems has become a key security issue because quantum computers have the potential to undermine encryption standards used in digital finance, banking, healthcare systems and even military intelligence. As the world prepares for a future where general artificial intelligence and scalable quantum computers become a reality, privacy-preserving blockchain protocols and institutions are exploring privacy-preserving solutions. Avidan Abitbol, ​​project director at the Data Ownership Protocol, recently said that institutions will not embrace Web3 without privacy. Selective disclosure via zero-knowledge proofs is a solution to protect data that would otherwise be on-chain and extremely vulnerable to tracking by threat actors. (Cointelegraph)