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Good Monday, people of web3!
Gitcoin Privacy Round, that we help to curate btw, has officially ended and there are great results! Take a look at what projects and tools are making biggest rounds in privacy (pun intended) and enjoy today's newsletter.

### New tool of the week
- [Winner of Gitcoin Privacy round: Dev3Pack and their Privacy bootcamp](https://dev3pack.xyz/)
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### Insights
- [See the results of Gitcoin Privacy Round:](https://gitcoin.privote.live/rounds/0/result)
- [European Union Council withdraws their plan for Chat Control again, after public pushback](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/once-again-chat-control-flails-after-strong-public-pressure)
- [Proton launches Data Breach Observatory to track unreported leaks from darkweb](https://proton.me/blog/introducing-breach-observatory)
- [WORM's private-proof-of-burn zkSNARK circuits fully open-source:](https://github.com/worm-privacy/proof-of-burn)
- [Windows' vulnerabilities under active exploitation](https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/two-windows-vulnerabilities-one-a-0-day-are-under-active-exploitation/)
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### Knowledge
- [Long read on UK's data tracking of kids from the day they are born](https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5696/playground-database-child-data-education)
- [Russia blocks people from making new accounts on WhattsApp and Telegram](https://cyberinsider.com/russia-blocks-new-user-registrations-on-telegram-and-whatsapp/)
- [Ex-L3Harris executive admits to selling trade secrets to Russian firm](https://www.wired.com/story/peter-williams-trenchant-trade-secrets-theft-russian-firm/)
- [Tanzanian governemnt imposed internet shutdown during voting](https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/keepiton-tanzania-must-commit-to-unrestricted-access-to-the-internet-during-elections/)
- [Energy prices rising up due to usage of AI](https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/01/rising-energy-prices-put-ai-and-data-centers-in-the-crosshairs/)
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### Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web
- [Take our own Web3 Privacy Now courses through our Academy](https://academy.web3privacy.info/)
- [Stop confusing privacy, anonymity and security](https://www.privacyguides.org/videos/2025/03/14/stop-confusing-privacy-anonymity-and-security/)
- ["Let's sue the government"| EFF's Lisa Femia duscussion about ideological social media surveillance**](https://youtu.be/Ym27zUlaRxE)
- [EFFecting Change: This Title Was Written by a Human](https://www.eff.org/event/effecting-change-title-was-written-human)
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### Inspiration: Going Off(Line) an offering of IRL events 
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* Nov 7-8 - [SeaGL conference](https://www.eff.org/event/seagl) Seattle
* Nov 16 - [Web3Privacy Now Congress II](https://congress.web3privacy.info/) Buenos Aires
* Nov 18 - [DevconnectHER | Career Lab & Job Fair](https://luma.com/pemxxxda) Buenos Aires
* Nov 21 - [Ethereum Privacy Stack](https://web3privacy.github.io/eps25/)
* Dec 27-30 - [39th Chaos Communication Congress](https://events.ccc.de/en/2025/09/28/39c3-call-for-participation/) Hamburg
* Mar 6-7 2026 - [Logos Network's Parallel Society](https://x.com/Logos_network/status/1984952918454247534) Lisabon

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