Week in the Privacy News 51/2025

Good Monday, friends of privacy!

The long-year awaited Privacy Awards are finally here, so don't forget to send your inquiries. The past week has been busy and reoccuring theme among many others was praise for Fileverse, the decentralized alternative for Google Docs and Sheets. So check them out:

New tool of the week

• Meet Fileverse: private online space for all your documents, sketches, coding and all sorts of collab work

Insights

• Device Activity Tracker exposes a persistent privacy flaw in WhatsApp and Signal
• How Spam Watch works explained by Proton
• US's ICE agents scans people with facial recognition apps before letting them go
• Doxxers in disquise are tricking Big Tech companies to share people's private information
• Trump tries to block state AI laws
• Brave begins early testing of their privacy-oriented AI browse mode

Knowledge

• Read Veilnyx's article New Era of Privacy
• Learn more about iPhone privacy settings
• 17 things folks at a16z crypto are excited about for 2026
• Thread on understanding basics of Zero-Knowledge by ZKHack
• Crypto reinvented and replatformed the Middle-Man

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

• Naomi Brockwell shares how to shop online anonymously
• Speach by ml_sudo about sexism from Ethereum Privacy Stack
• Take our own Web3 Privacy Now courses through our Academy

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

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• Dec 17 - Prague Logos Circle Prague
• Dec 27-30 - 39th Chaos Communication Congress Hamburg
• Jan 31 - Feb 1 - FOSDEM 2026 Brussels
• Mar 6-7 2026 - Logos Network's Parallel Society Lisabon
• May 5-8 2026 - RightsCon Zambia
• May 8-10 2026 - ETHPrague Prague