Week in the Privacy News 45/2025

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

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