Week in the Privacy News 2025-46
Web3Privacy
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Good Monday, friends of privacy!
Past and upcoming week has both been booming with amazing stuff going on for those interested in privacy. While we here at Web3PrivacyNow are pretty busy with last preps for our Buenos Aires Congress, some big things happened.
Be it drop of new Debuan, ZCash value skyrocketing or Mullvad shifting their browser policy, we believe you can find whatever sparks your interest in this week's newsletter. So enjoy and we hope to see you in Argentina!
New tool of the week
Insights
- Devuan 6 Excalibur has been released
- US's license plate surveillance logs shows reveal police search for Romani and gypsy vehicles
- Wired's Lily Han Newman says that the government shutdown ss a ticking cybersecurity time bomb
- New malware called PromptFlux uses gemini to rewrite and hide itself in real time
- Commercial spyware Landfall found in Samsung Galaxy's since day zero. Targets were mainly from Middle East
Knowledge
- Learn how to turn off Meta's personalized ads
- EFF Teams Up With AV Comparatives to Test Android Stalkerware Detection by Major Antivirus Apps
- New California law regarding data collection by web browsers could set a standard for whole country
- Price of privacy focused coin ZCASH has jumped tenfold
- Mullvad shuts down Leta Search proxy
Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web
- Listen to Dyne.org's one and only Jaromil on why hackers won't save the world (and why that's a good thing)
- Take our own Web3 Privacy Now courses through our Academy
- EFFecting Change: This Title Was Written by a Human
Inspiration: Going Off(Line) an offering of IRL events
(new/changes in bold)
- 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
