Casey Ford, PhD
Communications Lead
Casey is the Head of Communications, lead writer, and editorial reviewer at Nym. He holds a PhD in Philosophy and researches the intersection of decentralized technologies and social life.
What is decentralization?
Understanding principles and technologies for freedom, power regulation, and autonomy today
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What are dApps? The foundational tools of Web3
Understanding the power of decentralization and how privacy should be front and center
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Convenience vs. caution: How AI at work is colliding with privacy fears
AI tools at work: Rapid adoption in the United States & Britain with unclear consequences
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The best dApps for privacy, messaging, DeFi, and censorship resistance in 2025
Private-by-design DApps for messaging, DeFi, and storage — tested in global crises
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Why did we inherit a surveilled internet?
The beginnings of the Internet, the Cold War, and its military-commercial roots
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What is WeChat? Why the “Super App” is the super surveillance of your data
How WeChat works, and how it’s tracking as much as it can about you
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