Week in the Privacy News 2025-47

Good Monday, friends of privacy! As our Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress 2 flows into DevConnect event, we want to thank eveyone of you who made it possible! It was a blast and nowhere near end - privacy is eternal and beautiful. With that in mind, while Google gets scared with sus VPNs, check new privacy focused VPN called Obscura.

Educate yourselves on new pushes in anti-VPN agenda, how Google helps ICE, how Amir Taaki was denied access to Argentina and so much more in this week's newsletter and see you around in Buenos Aires or next week with new newsletter.

New tool of the week

• Meet Obsucra, new VPN that can't track your activity and which you can pay for with Monero

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Insights

• Google learns about Chinese spywares disguised as VPNs in their App Store
• PSE's report on state of privacy voting
• First age confirmation with digi ID, now banning of VPNs. Lawmakers in US are having a go at privacy (again) and have no clue what they are doing
• Ethereum foundation's wallet Kohaku has been demoed on ECC2 event, using Privacy Pools
• No more "Louvre" level passwords for cultural institutions. Proton gives access to Proton Pass to these institutions for free for two years
• Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants

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Knowledge

• DarkFi's Amir Taaki has been denied access to Argentina on his way to W3PN Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress 2
• Pareintg in the age of AI
• Age-verification laws can endanger free expression and privacy. GUARD Act could force countless AI companies to collect sensitive identity data
• Musk's X.com launches its own chat platform, pledgind ecnrypted messages and calls and aiming to be rival to Signal, Session or Telegram
• Learn how Wired's Paul Lamkin said Bye, Bye to Alexa

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

• Listen to Edward Snowden speech on censorship resistance, cyber states & privacy
• Andreas Tsamados of Fileverse says the next privacy revolution will star with good UX
• Take our own Web3 Privacy Now courses through our Academy

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Inspiration: Going Off(Line) an offering of IRL events

(new/changes in bold)

• Nov 17 - 22 Women in Web3 Hub at DevConnect Buenos Aires
• Nov 18 - DevconnectHER | Career Lab & Job Fair Buenos Aires
• Nov 21 - Ethereum Privacy Stack
• Dec 8 - WEB3SEC 2025: Workshop Encouraging Building Better Blockchain Security 2025 Honolulu
• Dec 27-30 - 39th Chaos Communication Congress Hamburg
• Mar 6-7 2026 - Logos Network's Parallel Society Lisabon