Week in the Privacy News 2025-10

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Hope your first week of March is off to a good start!

May I suggest some digital home improvements?

1. Switch one chat a week from Whatsapp to Signal.
2. Don't try to fix anyone's moral compass on social media, unless they are open to it.
3. Cleanse your home screen from unnecessary apps.
4. Draft and share in Fileverse ddocs instead of Google Sheets.
5. Move sensitive information and your seed phrases to good old analogue paper.
6. Sage your devices.

We've been cooking over at Web3Privacy! Here's some updates:

• PG's Article - Rethinking Freedom in the Digital Age: The Rise of the Carepunks
• Web3Privacy Now Hackathon applications are now open!

now for the digital privacy news:

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Insights

• Universally Composable SNARKs with Transparent Setup without Programmable Random Oracle
• Chile has passed a major Data Protection Law that strengthens privacy rights
• DHS quietly eliminates ban on surveillance based on sexual orientation and gender identity
• France pushes for law enforcement access to Signal, WhatsApp and encrypted email
• Signal will withdraw from Sweden if encryption-busting laws take effect
• Privado ID is launching Billions: the first global human and AI network
• Week in Mina
• RAILGUN PPOI new data providers
• Remix Project added Noir
• Biomapper deployed on Filecoin
• First stable release of Zama’s pure Rust implementation of TFHE

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Knowledge

• Surveillance technology is increasingly used to prosecute activists, protesters and human rights defenders
• Website fighting against automated license plate readers, received a cease-and-desist
• China is expanding its digital authoritarian model of cybersecurity governance across the Indo-Pacific
• Ice contractor plans for surveillance boom under Trump migrant crackdown
• US authorities can see more than ever, with Big Tech as their eyes
• No, Privacy is Not Dead: Beware the All-or-Nothing Mindset
• ‘No one, not even us, can see what you are doing’ — NymVPN’s CSO ahead of launch
• Unearthing the Reality of zkTLS
• Explanation series - RLN Relay
• Crypto Crime Trends

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Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web

• Why a push for encryption backdoors is a global security risk
• In Praise of Shadows: Why Ethereum Needs Privacy
• Lunarpunk and the Dark Side of the Cycle
• Onchain Privacy: Where Are We Going?
• The Human Algorithm: Building the Soul of Crypto
• Moderating Magrabe Arabic Content on Social Media

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Inspiration: Going Off(Line) an offering of IRL events

(new/changes in bold)

• April 2-5 - ETHBucharest
• May 9-11 – ETHDam Amsterdam
• May 27-29 – ETHPrague
• Jun 3-8 – ETHBelgrade
• Jun 12-13 – Protocol Berg Berlin
• Jun 20-22 - MoneroKon Prague

Sauce 🥫

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Alina xx

curator: Alina