“The Next Privacy Revolution Starts with Good UX" Andreas Tsamados x Fileverse
Tue, Dec 2, 2025, 12:00 AM
A fast, feisty deep-dive with Andreas Tsamados (Miroyatu), co-founder of Fileverse on why great UX is the missing piece for privacy adoption. We cover building Google-class collaboration without surveillance, local-first AI (no servers), real AI security risks (prompt injection & model poisoning), decentralization that actually helps users, and how regulation + community can pry open Big Tech lock-in. Timestamps 00:00 – Intro: Who is Andreas Miroato & what Föver builds (Ddocs / Dsheets) 01:00 – From PhD in AI & cybersecurity to co-founding privacy-first tools 03:00 – Anger at digital injustice: why surveillance pushed him to act 04:30 – People do care about privacy — the real problem is bad UX 06:00 – Designing privacy by default: local-first, offline-ready, no logins 08:00 – How crypto apps failed at UX & what open, responsive building means 10:00 – Builders’ dilemma: staying true to values while finding funding 12:00 – Crypto grants, donors & hackathons as lifelines for independent devs 13:30 – Internet blackout & centralized cables a wake-up call for Europe 15:00 – Mesh networks like Guifi.net as blueprints for community resilience 17:00 – His PhD: how states weaponize AI in cyberwarfare & hacking 19:00 – Why academia must stay slow and how corporate AI twists research 21:00 – The “AI doom” myth: fear as marketing & distraction from real risks 23:00 – How LLMs leak data: prompt-injection & model-poisoning explained 25:00 – Governments, data poisoning & the new information battleground 26:30 – Using AI privately: local models & cloud dependence 28:00 – Developers must carry the burden privacy shouldn’t rely on users 29:00 – “Regulations are our friends”: GDPR, portability & fighting monopolies 31:00 – Decentralized apps as naturally compliant & ethically sustainable 33:00 – His privacy stack: Cwtch, Radicle, Brave Leo, DataRights.eu & more 36:00 – Vision: an internet of ownership, interoperability & algorithmic freedom 39:00 – Exposing data colonialism Worldcoin & exploitation in the Global South 42:00 – Protecting biometrics & ending predatory AI business models 44:00 – Cultural picks: The Internet’s Own Boy, Yale privacy essay, hacker spaces 46:00 – “Find your people”: community as energy & resistance 48:00 – Closing thoughts, floppy-disk gift & the Gen Z “3D-printed save button” moment - This conversation is part of Privacy Academy Interviews – a peer-to-peer knowledge project exploring the most important ideas in Web3, privacy, and digital freedom. Learn more: https://academy.web3privacy.info/p/interviews A W3PN Media House production. Directed by Federico Marchi https://x.com/BabyBitProd Interview by Peter Farbey https://x.com/0xfarbey Andreas https://x.com/miroyato https://fileverse.io Let privacy be with you!