Edit Article: Week in the Privacy News 2025-09

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While working full time in crypto / privacy and seeing the most ludicrous news ever popping up on your screen, it is important to remember the image of a happy decentralized internet.

Utopia? Maybe, but without taking steps in the right directon, we will absolutely lose the plot.

On the bright side, things are heating up - with Apple pulling end-to-end encryption from the UK, more people are starting to talk about importance of privacy.
With that, more people are starting to *learn* about the importance of privacy. 
And slowly, and then all at once, we will embrace a new era where privacy is no longer a luxury or an afterthought. It's a demand.

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### Insights
- [Cornered by the UK’s Demand for an Encryption Backdoor, Apple Turns Off Its Strongest Security Setting](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/cornered-uks-demand-encryption-backdoor-apple-turns-its-strongest-security-setting)
- [Cardiff Puts up a Live Facial Recognition Surveillance Zone](https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/big-brother-watch-condemns-uks-first-use-of-city-wide-facial-recognition-in-cardiff/)
- [European Central Bank to Create a Blockchain-Based Payment System](https://watcher.guru/news/european-central-bank-to-create-a-blockchain-based-payment-system)
- [Brave VPN Updates](https://brave.com/blog/vpn-relaunch/)
- [Portrait Launches Decentralised Micro-websites](https://blog.waku.org/portrait-launches-decentralised-micro-websites-powered-by-waku/)

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### Knowledge
- [Internet Shutdowns in 2024](https://www.accessnow.org/internet-shutdowns-2024/)
- [EFF: Saving the Internet in Europe](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/saving-internet-europe-defending-privacy-and-fighting-surveillance)
- [EFF: Building a Community Privacy Plan](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/building-community-privacy-plan)
- [Critics say new Google rules put profits over privacy](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm21g0052dno)
- [AI Poses Profound Privacy Risks](https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/ai-poses-profound-privacy-risks-signal-president-says-a-27492?utm_content=324490515&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-23420106)
- [Nomos’ Cryptarchia: Improving on Ouroboros Crypsinous](https://blog.nomos.tech/nomos-cryptarchia-improving-on-ouroboros-crypsinous/)
- [On Quantum Money and Evasive Obfuscation](https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/325)
- [Why We Can't Build Perfectly Secure Multi-Party Applications (yet)](https://mirror.xyz/privacy-scaling-explorations.eth/nXUhkZ84ckZi_5mYRFCCKgkLVFAmM2ECdEFCQul2jPs)

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### Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web
- [The Logic of Dark Networks](https://x.com/Logos_network/status/1892606644594372856)
- [Regulatory Landscape for AI in Europe](https://brave.com/podcast/e58/)
- [Can Blockchain Truly be Private?](https://x.com/BlockchainEdu/status/1892144618785182019)
- [Namada Saga](https://x.com/namada/status/1894056976499232879)
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### Inspiration: Going Off(Line) an offering of IRL events 
*(new/changes in **bold**)*

* Feb 15 - March 1, [ZK Village](https://www.zklab.systems/zkai-village) Denver, USA
* Feb 23 - March 1, [ETHDenver](https://www.ethdenver.com/)
* April 2-5 - [ETHBucharest](https://x.com/ethbucharest_?s=21)
* May 9-11 – [ETHDam](https://www.ethdam.com/) Amsterdam
* May 27-29 – [ETHPrague](https://ethprague.com/)
* Jun 3-8 – [ETHBelgrade](https://ethbelgrade.rs/)
* Jun 12-13 – [Protocol Berg](https://protocol.berlin/) Berlin

### Sauce 🥫

Alina xx

### curator: Alina

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