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Week in the Privacy News 2025-45
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 pr
Nov 3, 2025m
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
Insights
- See the results of Gitcoin Privacy Round:
- European Union Council withdraws their plan for Chat Control again, after public pushback
- Proton launches Data Breach Observatory to track unreported leaks from darkweb
- WORM's private-proof-of-burn zkSNARK circuits fully open-source:
- Windows' vulnerabilities under active exploitation
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Knowledge
- Long read on UK's data tracking of kids from the day they are born
- Russia blocks people from making new accounts on WhattsApp and Telegram
- Ex-L3Harris executive admits to selling trade secrets to Russian firm
- Tanzanian governemnt imposed internet shutdown during voting
- Energy prices rising up due to usage of AI
Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web
- Take our own Web3 Privacy Now courses through our Academy
- Stop confusing privacy, anonymity and security
- "Let's sue the government"| EFF's Lisa Femia duscussion about ideological social media surveillance**
- EFFecting Change: This Title Was Written by a Human
Inspiration: Going Off(Line) an offering of IRL events
*(new/changes in **bold**)*
- Nov 7-8 - SeaGL conference Seattle
- Nov 16 - Web3Privacy Now Congress II Buenos Aires
- Nov 18 - DevconnectHER | Career Lab & Job Fair Buenos Aires
- Nov 21 - Ethereum Privacy Stack
- Dec 27-30 - 39th Chaos Communication Congress Hamburg
- Mar 6-7 2026 - Logos Network's Parallel Society Lisabon