https://watchz.cash/videos/watch/502f7e32-4571-43e8-bd37-4ba693dcda3f How have expectations of privacy in financial transactions changed in the last few decades, as we went from cash to card to digital to crypto? We will go through a brief history of financial surveillance, covering defining moments that shape our relationship with Big Brother today (e.g. 9/11). Then, we look forward, plotting a path from today to the futures depicted in fictional dystopias. We focus on the country of Gilead in Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale [author's note: they may add other references]. How did women so entirely lose control of their lives? What tools of surveillance were employed, and how did women eventually lose their financial autonomy? Michelle Lai is builder and investor in crypto. She is also a strong privacy advocate, believing that crypto/blockchain are essential tools for free societies in our technocractic future. She has worked with Anchorage, Bitpay, and Copper, served on the first Zcash grant committee, and is involved with the Universal Privacy Alliance. Prior to tech, she worked in investments in financial institutions - where, through the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, she realized ""trustless"" is better than ""trusted."" Twitter: @michlai007 Livestream support from Zcash Media. Zcon4: The Future Has Not Been Written Day 1 - Sunday, July 30, 2023 Presented by the Zcash Foundation Barcelona Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:48:42 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://watchz.cash https://watchz.cash/lazy-static/avatars/d9835cea-0da7-47f5-8d2b-16ab7ff35c55.png https://watchz.cash/videos/watch/502f7e32-4571-43e8-bd37-4ba693dcda3f All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://watchz.cash/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.