Week in the Privacy News 2025-45
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Good Monday, people of web3! Gitcoin Privacy Round, that we help to curate btw, has officially ended and there are great results! Take a look at what projects and tools are making biggest rounds in privacy (pun intended) and enjoy today's newsletter.
New tool of the week
Insights
- See the results of Gitcoin Privacy Round:
- European Union Council withdraws their plan for Chat Control again, after public pushback
- Proton launches Data Breach Observatory to track unreported leaks from darkweb
- WORM's private-proof-of-burn zkSNARK circuits fully open-source:
- Windows' vulnerabilities under active exploitation
Knowledge
- Long read on UK's data tracking of kids from the day they are born
- Russia blocks people from making new accounts on WhattsApp and Telegram
- Ex-L3Harris executive admits to selling trade secrets to Russian firm
- Tanzanian governemnt imposed internet shutdown during voting
- Energy prices rising up due to usage of AI
Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web
- Take our own Web3 Privacy Now courses through our Academy
- Stop confusing privacy, anonymity and security
- "Let's sue the government"| EFF's Lisa Femia duscussion about ideological social media surveillance**
- EFFecting Change: This Title Was Written by a Human
Inspiration: Going Off(Line) an offering of IRL events
(new/changes in bold)
- Nov 7-8 - SeaGL conference Seattle
- Nov 16 - Web3Privacy Now Congress II Buenos Aires
- Nov 18 - DevconnectHER | Career Lab & Job Fair Buenos Aires
- Nov 21 - Ethereum Privacy Stack
- Dec 27-30 - 39th Chaos Communication Congress Hamburg
- Mar 6-7 2026 - Logos Network's Parallel Society Lisabon
