Week 48/2025newsletterarticle
Week in the Privacy News 48/2025
Good Monday, friends of privacy! From Amir Taaki's deportation from Argentina to launching their messaging app, folks at DarkFi are pretty busy. So let's start this week with taking a look at their app. We also want to thank everyone who stopped by at our e...
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Nov 24, 2025Web3Privacy Editorial
Good Monday, friends of privacy!
From Amir Taaki's deportation from Argentina to launching their messaging app, folks at DarkFi are pretty busy. So let's start this week with taking a look at their app. We also want to thank everyone who stopped by at our event or at our presentations at DevConnect.
Privacy is beautiful!
New tool of the week
Insights
- DarkFi launches DarkIRC, now for Android, Mac, Windows and Linux
- GrapheneOS is being labeled as "criminal's choice" in France because the authority can't crack them open...
- ... which is nothing new under the privacy & crypto sun. You can read one of many asnwers to these allegations by GrapheneOS themselves
- Musk's X.com has started to reveal from which country their users created their accounts and will soon even indicate VPN usage
- EFF sues the Department of Justice for forcing tech platforms to take down apps that documents ICE activities
- Leo, Brave's AI assistant now offers crypted privacy
Knowledge
- While we are at Brave's Leo, you can read their 2 cents on Ai and privacy
- Cops used Flock to monitor protest
- Hackers conference in New Zealand used DIY CO2 monitors to help reduce possibility of getting ill
- Another lawsuit against OpenAI after Zane Shamblin's suicide
- Learn more about the lawsuits against ChatGPT
Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web
- New episode of Unchained podcast featuring Aztec’s Zac Williamson and Joe Andrews about decentralization, Ethereum and much more
- Zero Knowledge Podcast's Chat with Binyi Chen, researcher at Stanford University about lattice-based folding schemes
- Rewiring Democracy with Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders in conversation with Cindy Cohn
- Take our own Web3 Privacy Now courses through our Academy
Inspiration: Going Off(Line) an offering of IRL events
*(new/changes in **bold**)*
- Dec 8 - WEB3SEC 2025: Workshop Encouraging Building Better Blockchain Security 2025 Honolulu
- Dec 27-30 - 39th Chaos Communication Congress Hamburg
- Mar 6-7 2026 - Logos Network's Parallel Society Lisabon
- May 5-8 2026 - RightsCon Zambia
- May 8-10 2026 - ETHPrague Prague