Edit Article: Week in the Privacy News 2025-11

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*When was the last time you’ve seen a really good privacy meme?*

***Introducing 1st Memathon focused on facilitating memetic comms in privacy x web3**!*

*Memathon is an online 3-weeks marathon on memes creation, where hundreds of people, from copywriters and marketing gurus to privacy ambassadors will come up with new memes that will empower privacy and freedom narrative in web3.*

*With a financial incentive, backed by privacy orgs. Yes-yes, we talk about **prizes**!*

Lurk on [JokeRace](https://www.jokerace.io/contest/polygon/0x69a42939b1db1455e7150b79794d0b392f2b26f9) for now, with more updates coming soon! We ride at dawn (4:20am 1st of April).

We also announced [Web3Privacy Now Congress II](http://congress.web3privacy.info) in Buenos Aires! With a HOT line up of speakers, curated vibes and lot's of new friends, join us in this building step of Privacy infrastructure.

See what I mean by a HOT line up? And that's just the beginning.

Now for the digital privacy news:

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### Insights
- [UK scrubs encryption advice from government websites](https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/uk-quietly-scrubs-encryption-advice-from-government-websites/)
- [Decoding Pakistan’s digital expression legislation](https://ifex.org/pakistan-study-sheds-light-on-repressive-digital-expression-legislation/)
- [Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having ‘profound’ security and privacy issues](https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/signal-president-meredith-whittaker-calls-out-agentic-ai-as-having-profound-security-and-privacy-issues/)
- [Starknet + Noir](https://x.com/StarknetEco/status/1898698455591059865)
- [HashCloak using Noir to train a model without sharing their private data](https://x.com/NoirLang/status/1898080135930351977)

### Knowledge
- [‘Age Verification’ Bills Are Out of Control](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/first-porn-now-skin-cream-age-verification-bills-are-out-control)
- [Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access ‘weaponised’](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/09/internet-shutdowns-record-high-africa-2024-access-weaponised)
- [The Digital Backlash: Pakistan’s Broken Pledge on Gender Equality](https://digitalrightsfoundation.pk/the-digital-backlash-pakistans-broken-pledge-on-gender-equality/)
- [RightsCon 2025: Protecting digital freedom in a conflicted world](https://www.article19.org/resources/rightscon-2025-protecting-digital-freedom-conflicted-world/)
- [The Take It Down Act isn’t a law, it’s a weapon](https://www.theverge.com/policy/624974/take-it-down-act-deepfakes-nonconsensual-pornography-trump-constitutional-crisis)
- [How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app](https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/04/google_android/)
- [The Next Chapter for Stablecoins: Built-In Confidentiality using FHE](https://www.zama.ai/post/stablecoin-next-chapter-built-in-confidentiality-with-fully-homomorphic-encryption)
- [Crypto Has a Privacy Conundrum](https://hackernoon.com/crypto-has-a-privacy-conundrum)
- [Intmax: a scalable payment L2 from plasma and validity proofs](https://x.com/privacyscaling/status/1897466508332425405?s=46)

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### Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web
- [The State of ECC, ZCon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlKADl3bhVo&t=1073s)
- [Regulatory Perspective, ZCon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=vYfSO14UP5o&list=PL40dyJ0UYTLIIhRk8vu2hkPL_q7OWO7wk&index=3)
- [The UK Govt Just Killed Your iCloud Privacy – Here's What to Do](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuqOzn9GWTU)
- [Designing Resilient Ecosystems](https://x.com/0xHolonym/status/1898056819051843590)
- [DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous](https://www.techpolicy.press/doge-plan-to-push-ai-across-the-us-federal-government-is-wildly-dangerous/)
- [Story of Zero Knowledge Systems](https://x.com/zeroknowledgefm/status/1897759399554289863?s=46)
- [Proof of Stake Panel ZCon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAcvrKa5hiw)
  
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### Inspiration: Going Off(Line) an offering of IRL events 
*(new/changes in **bold**)*

* April 1 - [Web3Privacy Now MeetUp](https://lu.ma/9ni8jbzx?tk=DlGLxc) Bucharest
* April 2-5 - [ETHBucharest](https://x.com/ethbucharest_?s=21)
* May 8 - [Web3Privacy Now MeetUp](https://lu.ma/73go30ij) Amsterdam
* May 9-11 – [ETHDam](https://www.ethdam.com/) Amsterdam
* May 27-29 – [ETHPrague](https://ethprague.com/)
* May 29 - [Web3Privacy Now MeetUp](https://lu.ma/jhp1iapn) Prague
* Jun 3-8 – [ETHBelgrade](https://ethbelgrade.rs/)
* Jun 12-13 – [Protocol Berg](https://protocol.berlin/) Berlin
* Jun 13-15 - [Web3Privacy Now Hackathon](https://hackathon.web3privacy.info/) Berlin
* Jun 16-18 - [Dappcon](https://dappcon.io/) Berlin
* Jun 20-22 - [MoneroKon](https://www.monerokon.org/) Prague
* Nov 16 - [Web3Privacy Now Congress II](https://congress.web3privacy.info/) Buenos Aires

### Sauce 🥫
<img width="913" alt="Screenshot 2025-03-11 at 13 35 02" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8670b3eb-cddd-4bf8-aa9d-f5c4d7d4b71c" />

### curator: Alina

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