“Any centralized platform, from Facebook to Google to Apple to any VPN company, can say it’s respecting your privacy,” Harry Halpin, CEO of Nym Technologies and a research scientist at MIT, says, “They also can be forced to share your personal data by government request, as Snowden revealed. Yet only decentralized networks are actually forced to protect your privacy by design. Otherwise, it’s too easy to just analyse that supposedly private data, as the lawsuit against Google shows”