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A subtle but significant way that tech companies will continue to undermine user attempts to control their data, without stronger regulatory protections 

cc @eulerlagrange.eth @evin

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Working on building zkTLS infra/products. A ruthless empiricist and meme connoisseur.

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In the EU you can *kind of* get a clean handoff via email whereas in CA/VA you cannot 

You’re right tho 

“Computer legible” != verifiable

Opacity

For my company /opacity we make the assumption cooperation from anyone but the user is a waste of time.

It’s def an engineering approach, but we have zkTLS with the collusion issue solved.

I really don’t think it’s worth trying to get companies to do stuff against their economic incentives

Even with zkTLS you are limited by what Twitter exposes in the app itself, which is only a data subset

One idea- could you zkTLS the data download itself, assuming it happens live from the app?

The way it works is you make the request and then a day later, twitter emails you saying it's ready with a link. 

you go to the link and download the zip file. 

the question is whether opacity could zktls the download

Yes you could, but if the file is large it would risk timing out the request before it’s done.

To fix that we’d have to sacrifice redaction support of the response. If it contains sensitive data the user may not want to share it with anyone.

You have to share the whole thing to be verifiable