Week in the Privacy News 2025-53
Good Monday, friends of privacy!
The year of 2025 is coming to an end and we here at Web3Privacy are busy as ever with all your submissions for Privacy Awards. While going through your inquiries for best and worse additions to privacy ecosystems, we couldn't miss how Zoom does it's behavorial surveillance and collects data about your clicking, typings and so on. But you know who doesn't? Brave Talk!
Brave's team are working everyday to enhance the world of privacy with their search, AI and even private Meeting Spaces. So give next time somebody invites you to some Zoom call, keep them in mind and give it a try.
This is gonna be the last newsletter of this year, but worry not, you will keep on hearing from us next year even more! See you around and wish you Happy New Year full of Privacy championing!
Tool of the week
Insights
- How to use Brave Talk:
- Learn how Zoom is collecting your data and it's behavioral surveillance
- Compromise in Trust Wallet chain leads to millions of stolen crypto
- Ethereum Foundation's head of ecosystem on Internet and why we trust it
- Revisiting EFF's article on Online Behavioral Ads
Knowledge
- Nym's guide to protecting your metadata
- Crypto scammers are fueling darknet markets on Telegram
- Anna's Archive made 300TB copy of Spotify's most streamed songs
- How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use them
- What to do when you have been targeted by government's spyware?
Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web
- How Vaults Bring Transparent, Programmable Yields w/ Tarun Chitra from Gauntlet
- Zcash and the Fight for Privacy in the Digital Age
- Take our own Web3 Privacy Now courses through our Academy
Inspiration: Going Off(Line) an offering of IRL events
(new/changes in bold)
- Dec 27-30 - 39th Chaos Communication Congress Hamburg
- Jan 31 - Feb 1 - FOSDEM 2026 Brussels
- Mar 6-7 2026 - Logos Network's Parallel Society Lisabon
- May 5-8 2026 - RightsCon Zambia
- May 8-10 2026 - ETHPrague Prague
- Jun 16-17 2026 - Dapcon 26 Berlin
