As much as we love the convenience of the internet, our privacy is at great risk whenever we go on social media, check our credit reports, grab a ride, or simply log into a fitness app. Our need to protect our information encompasses much more than financial transactions with a few cryptocurrencies. In the United States alone, the staggering number of data breaches shows the need for a better privacy solution, and zk-SNARKs or zk-STARKs are poised to fill that need. This year, the Cambridge Analytica data mining scandal affected more than 87 million Facebook users, and the WSJ predicts its repercussions will be huge. LastPowered by WPeMatico