Week 27/2024newsletterarticle
Week in the Privacy News 27/2024
Sep 22, 2024Alina
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Releases
- Nym NymVPN free beta testing now live
- Firo Firo Mandatory Release v0.14.14.0
- Aleo Aleo Mainnet is live
- Gnosis Gnosis Guild launched Enclave
- Semaphore Semaphore v4 is out
- Aztec Aztec launched a new website
Ecosystem
- A look into Labyrinth's latest progress
- A new era for PSE
- Proof of Ink by Gavin Wood
- IoTeX collaborates with Polygon Labs
- Nillion integrates with NEAR Protocol
- Namada Pre-Genesis Phase 2
- 0xbow has been integrating with Privacy Pools
- Aztec gave grant to provable email
Podcasts
- Jameson Lopp: Technology to empower individuals Logos Podcast with Jarred Hope
- How Gnosis 3.0 Paves the Way for Mass Adoption Friederike Ernst
- Onchain Minimalism Keynote by Justin Drake at PlasmaCon 2024
- TEEs with Andrew Miller Zero Knowledge fm
- LunarDAO <> FIRN forest-side chat
- Cross-chain intents & the modular ecosystem Anoma
- Kruw on Bitcoin Privacy & Blockchain Analysis
- Bitcoin privacy, and the crypto privacy landscape with @thevladcostea Nym Community Call
- How to improve your privacy with Dappnode Dappnode Crash Course
- Technical Workshop with Diego Lizarazo and Mauricio Magaldi Midnight x TOKEN2049
- Progress In the Decentralized AI Stack Panel at Web3 Summit 2024 Berlin
- Confidential Computing for Solana HackSecret 4
- Best Mina application or library built using Protokit ETHGlobal Singapore 2024
- Remigration Checks, Chainanalysis, Presidential Debate & more! Monero Talk
- Use Open-Source Technologies Franzi x Department of Decentralization @ ETHBerlin
- Privado ID & Basic Attention Token team on Privacy in the Web3 @ X spaces
Governments
- EFF: Venezuela's Repression: surveillance and censorship following July's presidential election
- DW: Chinese cyberattacks hit nearly half of German firms
- Reuters: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested in France
- Radar: Telegram will share users’ IP addresses and phone numbers” to governments when legally required
Research
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Other
- Forbes Alliances show the web3 revolution is unstoppable with Robinhood, Secret Network and Tezos
- Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default for desktop
- Zashi Coinbase integration
- Sweeping FTC study finds that social media sites engage in ‘vast surveillance’ of its users
- Cryptographic papers giveaway by BigSky
- Beyond cypherpunks article
Upcoming events
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- Sept 26-27, ETHMilan conference
- Oct 3, Web3Privacy Now ETHRome meetup
- Oct 4-6, Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis (HCPP) (Prague) conference
- Oct 4-6, ETHRome hackathon
- Oct 8, zkSummit Lisbon
- Nov 11, Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress Bangkok
- Nov 12-15, devcon Bangkok