Week in the Privacy News 2025-15
Web3Privacy
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Hello, friends! After some break we are finally back with our newsletter. We want to say one thing: October will be a huge month for privacy with many product announcements, partnerships, unstoppable events. Enjoy the show:
Insights
- Controversy about mandatory Digital ID in UK as a strike into personal privacy
- Tails 7.0 brings faster loading and bigger sizes of images
- Hackers have exploited multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco ASA, installing malware and stealing data
- Meta keeps censoring Abortion advocates on socials
- Brave starts new tool "Ask-Brave" that combines AI chatbot and search
- Study finds that AI chatbots can lie despite safety tools
Knowledge
- Major update for ProtonMail brings offline mode and new layout
- An app for doxxing critics of Charlie Kirk exposed its users
- Using MCP can make AI chatbots more useful but can put your privacy in danger
- Reacting to community pushback, NordVPN wont shutdown meshnet
- Autonomous enterprises and state channels might help Web3 according to Alexis Sirka of Yellow Network
- DeepSeek's new model reduces API costs
- More than half of cyber attacks on UK schools are done by its students
Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web
- Join p2pfoundation's Michael Bauwens Academy Cohort courses
- Learn more about Kids in Privacy on Women in Web3Privacy X.com Space
- What is mass-surveillance:
Inspiration: Going Off(Line) an offering of IRL events
(new/changes in bold)
- Oct 3-5 - DarkPrague 2025
- Oct 17-19 - ETHRome Rome
- Oct 27-29 - TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
- Oct 28 - Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute Annual Conference
- Nov 16 - Web3Privacy Now Congress II Buenos Aires
