Life is an ever-increasing cumulative function and therefore no progressing timebound experience exists that will decrease its value, only limit its future potential. So, in other words, just keep forging ahead and refrain from restricting your domain.
Those who claim to have ‘nothing to hide’ pose a grave threat to a free and democratic society because they’re opened up to manipulation, closed off from nuance, and oblivious to the vast possibilities of the future.
Decentralization is less convenient and oftentimes less efficient in the interim, but sometimes that’s the price of the distributed independence required to ensure individual liberties in perpetuity.