Week in the Privacy News 2025-13
Alina
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Good day,
Today we announced a MEMATHON! Launching on 1st of April - by the way, this is not a joke. Would we put so much effort into a joke? Well, probably yes. But it's not. So sign up, submit on JokeRace, and feel free to let your imagination go wild on the open track or the bounties.
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Insights
- A Win for Encryption: France Rejects Backdoor Mandate
- Michael Lewellen is suing the DOJ over their criminalization of software development
- IRS nears deal with Ice to share data of undocumented immigrants
- Nillion Launches Mainnet
- Privy's latest round of funding finished
Knowledge
- Civil society is pushing for transparent, rights-centred AI governance
- Privacy-Respecting European Tech Alternatives
- The war on encryption is dangerous
- Circle Research and Inco Explore Framework For FHE-Powered Confidential ERC20 Tokens
- Enhancing E-Voting with Multiparty Class Group Encryption
Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web
- This is Web3Privacy Now // ep01 - Stay Human
- What a VPN Sees & What it Hides From the ISP
- Making ZK More Human
- PSE Research Update: Web2 Nullifiers Using vOPRF
- Love, Privacy, and the Politics of Intellectual Shame
- Securing internet trust & establishing Digital Human Rights
Inspiration: Going Off(Line) an offering of IRL events
(new/changes in bold)
- April 1 - Web3Privacy Now MeetUp Bucharest
- April 2-5 - ETHBucharest
- May 8 - Web3Privacy Now MeetUp Amsterdam
- May 9-11 – ETHDam Amsterdam
- May 27-29 – ETHPrague
- May 29 - Web3Privacy Now MeetUp Prague
- Jun 3-8 – ETHBelgrade
- Jun 12-13 – Protocol Berg Berlin
- Jun 13-15 - Web3Privacy Now Hackathon Berlin
- Jun 16-18 - Dappcon Berlin
- Jun 20-22 - MoneroKon Prague
- Nov 16 - Web3Privacy Now Congress II Buenos Aires
