Week in the Privacy News 2025-14

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Good morning lovely people,

Last night we kicked off our MEMATHON! With Open Track + Bounties from iExec and Penumbra, go sign up on Luma and submit on JokeRace.

Did it? Nice. Many hanks,

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Now for the privacy news:

Insights

• FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado
• Asda launching a trial of live facial recognition
• 0xBow Privacy Pools Mainnet Launch
• Calimero Network 0.5.0
• Panther Protocol launching Limited Mainnet Beta
• Shutter Predict
• Billions: “Deep Trust: Verifiable Identity and Reputation for AI Agents”
• COTI V2 Mainnet

Knowledge

• Kroger’s Surveillance Pricing Harms Consumers and Raises Prices, With or Without Facial Recognition
• A Signal Update Fends Off a Phishing Technique Used in Russian Espionage
• Privacy Breakdown of Mobile Phones
• In Turkey, a controversial law on cybersecurity is widely seen as yet another censorship tool
• Nori: Ethereum–Mina ZK Bridge on Mina Protocol
• The Ghost Protocol: More than journalists in your group chats
• ChatGPT, AI, and the future of privacy
• Highly Cited Papers in 2024: “Smart Grids and Microgrids”
• What I wish I knew about privacy sooner
• The Evolution of Privacy Coins
• Encrypted Image Watermarking Using Fully Homomorphic Encryption and Zama Concrete ML
• Onchain Encryption Approaches: What’s the Difference Between FHE and TEEs?

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

• 5 minute meditation for focus
• The Office Hackathons / ETHBucharest Arbitrum Stylus 2024
• If you can give me 20 minutes of your attention, I'll give you hours back.
• 70s Japanese Jazz Mix (Modal Jazz, Soul Jazz, Jazz Funk, Rare Groove...)
• The Great Privacy Awakening

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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

Sauce 🥫

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curator: Alina