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# Privacy and decentralisation

As Logos Innovation Lab, we want to come up with proof of concepts that are a good example of the tools we will be able to use in the future. In making these tools for the future, we come across barriers that we need to overcome, circumvent or ignore. In this document we find a consensus on how we handle privacy and decentralisation in our team, throughout the process of creation.

The ideal scenario would be that every POC we "deliver" is fully decentralised and 100% anonymous.
The reality is that, while building we rely on technology that is not fully ready. How are we going to handle that?

When a future POC is still work in progress (WIP), we are ok with using centralised services to do some testing. For example we plug in firebase. This is a plug and replace option, that is easily switched to a decentralised alternative going towards the POC. 

We also use our own nodes while testing, knowing that more nodes make for a stronger network and wil lead to more decentralisation (although not fully censorship resistant). 

We will also provide the necessary tooling and guidelines for users to run their own infrastructure, in order to stimulate decentralisation.

We avoid using big corporations infrastructure.

We report on bugs in technolgy we use.

We point out where the flaws are in the technologies we use and formulate our standpoint, based on what we learn during the process of building.


### Privacy

We don't need a "privacy police", in the sense that we don't need to check if everything is always super private. However, we should spend more time on specifying protocols we're putting in place and discussing the choices we make, with the final goal of publishing those documents in a more academic format.
