User experience
The next step for the web.
In the next decade, web services will evolve to become truly personal, living in more places than just your browser, and reason over every intimate detail of our personal lives. There are examples to demonstrate this already. For example, in the past five years, the number of in-home smart assistants has grown from zero to half a billion web-connected devices. Our private lives have become a public commodity and as web services evolve to become more personal, we need to rethink how we control our data.
Today, there is no such thing as private web data.
If it lives online, somebody else owns it. The business model of the web is to provide free services in exchange for personal data. This model is antiquated and puts users at odds with providers. The user is forced to give up their data in exchange for services they want, at the cost of personal privacy. The provider bears the risks for managing user data to provide their service, facing the implications of storing, processing, and reporting it. It does not have to be this way and it should not be this way.
Users should not have to hand over their private data.
Instead, users should be able to run their data on transparent algorithms from the provider. And providers should not need to store, process, or report user data. Instead, they should be able to offload their work to the user and merely verify a response. By providing services this way, neither the user nor the provider learns more than they should, and the control over personal data remains with the user.
As the existing web is a subset of this model, users are able to use the concepts they already know from the web to interact on Aleo. And by introducing private applications as a new layer to the web, providers are able to offer new experiences to users without replacing their stack.
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