Edit Article: Week in the Privacy News 2025-14

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Good morning lovely people,

Last night we kicked off our MEMATHON! With Open Track + Bounties from iExec and Penumbra, go sign up on [Luma](https://lu.ma/6dtpioqm) and submit on [JokeRace](https://www.jokerace.io/contest/polygon/0x69a42939b1db1455e7150b79794d0b392f2b26f9).

Did it? Nice. 
Many hanks,

Now for the privacy news: 
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### Insights
- [FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado](https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website/)
- [Asda launching a trial of live facial recognition](https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/big-brother-watch-condemns-asdas-facial-recognition-trial-in-greater-manchester/)
- [0xBow Privacy Pools Mainnet Launch](https://x.com/0xbowio/status/1906784481496719749?s=46)
- [Calimero Network 0.5.0](https://x.com/CalimeroNetwork/status/1906679906387345519?t=Y6PnQeffuZ3W0KWw-IrHuw&s=35)
- [Panther Protocol launching Limited Mainnet Beta](https://x.com/zkpanther/status/1906740904146472981?s=46)
- [Shutter Predict](https://blog.shutter.network/shutter-predict-a-mini-dapp-for-encrypted-predictions/)
- [Billions: “Deep Trust: Verifiable Identity and Reputation for AI Agents”](https://x.com/billions_ntwk/status/1905349579727667409?s=46)
- [COTI V2 Mainnet](https://x.com/cotinetwork/status/1904891835828281770?s=46)

### Knowledge
- [Kroger’s Surveillance Pricing Harms Consumers and Raises Prices, With or Without Facial Recognition](https://epic.org/krogers-surveillance-pricing-harms-consumers-and-raises-prices-with-or-without-facial-recognition/)
- [A Signal Update Fends Off a Phishing Technique Used in Russian Espionage](https://www.wired.com/story/russia-signal-qr-code-phishing-attack/)
- [Privacy Breakdown of Mobile Phones](https://ssd.eff.org/playlist/privacy-breakdown-of-mobile-phones)
- [In Turkey, a controversial law on cybersecurity is widely seen as yet another censorship tool](https://globalvoices.org/2025/03/27/in-turkey-a-controversial-law-on-cybersecurity-is-widely-seen-as-yet-another-censorship-tool/)
- [Nori: Ethereum–Mina ZK Bridge on Mina Protocol](https://medium.com/@dokmecisamet/nori-ethereum-mina-zk-bridge-on-mina-protocol-de1828ecb638)
- [The Ghost Protocol: More than journalists in your group chats](https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5550/ghost-protocol-more-journalists-your-group-chats)
- [ChatGPT, AI, and the future of privacy](https://proton.me/blog/privacy-and-chatgpt)
- [Highly Cited Papers in 2024: “Smart Grids and Microgrids”](https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/11003?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_corp&utm_campaign=leadership_topscience_articles_topcited)
- [What I wish I knew about privacy sooner](https://nordictimes.com/tech/what-i-wish-i-knew-about-privacy-sooner/)
- [The Evolution of Privacy Coins](https://medium.com/pivx/the-evolution-of-privacy-coins-6130c997edab)
- [Encrypted Image Watermarking Using Fully Homomorphic Encryption and Zama Concrete ML](https://www.zama.ai/post/encrypted-image-watermarking-using-fully-homomorphic-encryption)
- [Onchain Encryption Approaches: What’s the Difference Between FHE and TEEs?](https://www.inco.org/blog/tee-fhe-comparison)

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### Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web
- [5 minute meditation for focus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSkFFW--Ma0)
- [The Office Hackathons / ETHBucharest Arbitrum Stylus 2024](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIf-ZylWvAQ)
- [If you can give me 20 minutes of your attention, I'll give you hours back.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIu7PtT79uA&list=PL22JCljnPB4grNQVhsLb4E3jvpJMAWvVg)
- [70s Japanese Jazz Mix (Modal Jazz, Soul Jazz, Jazz Funk, Rare Groove...)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-jtdKjzQaE&list=PL22JCljnPB4ggwy4XdIyU8mt_P4OUnoz0&index=2)
- [The Great Privacy Awakening](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvyqPec7G-c&list=PL22JCljnPB4g88R0mAi-TzIiTz5pbmUJb&index=2)
  
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### Inspiration: Going Off(Line) an offering of IRL events 
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* 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="936" alt="Screenshot 2025-03-25 at 17 50 19" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8b5405cd-7ac3-428e-be77-ff0223499424" />

### curator: Alina

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