Week in the Privacy News 9/2025

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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.

Insights

• Cornered by the UK’s Demand for an Encryption Backdoor, Apple Turns Off Its Strongest Security Setting
• Cardiff Puts up a Live Facial Recognition Surveillance Zone
• European Central Bank to Create a Blockchain-Based Payment System
• Brave VPN Updates
• Portrait Launches Decentralised Micro-websites

Knowledge

• Internet Shutdowns in 2024
• EFF: Saving the Internet in Europe
• EFF: Building a Community Privacy Plan
• Critics say new Google rules put profits over privacy
• AI Poses Profound Privacy Risks
• Nomos’ Cryptarchia: Improving on Ouroboros Crypsinous
• On Quantum Money and Evasive Obfuscation
• Why We Can't Build Perfectly Secure Multi-Party Applications (yet)

Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web

• The Logic of Dark Networks
• Regulatory Landscape for AI in Europe
• Can Blockchain Truly be Private?
• Namada Saga

Inspiration: Going Off(Line) an offering of IRL events

*(new/changes in **bold**)*

• Feb 15 - March 1, ZK Village Denver, USA
• Feb 23 - March 1, ETHDenver
• April 2-5 - ETHBucharest
• May 9-11 – ETHDam Amsterdam
• May 27-29 – ETHPrague
• Jun 3-8 – ETHBelgrade
• Jun 12-13 – Protocol Berg Berlin

Sauce 🥫

Alina xx

curator: Alina