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Week in the Privacy News 2026-11
Good Monday, friends of privacy! In the recent wave of people trying to change the tools and apps they are using to opt for more privacy-focused options, we think it is good to help and navigate a bit
Mar 16, 2026m
Good Monday, friends of privacy!
In the recent wave of people trying to change the tools and apps they are using to opt for more privacy-focused options, we think it is good to help and navigate a bit where to look. Lots of people are now cancelling their ChatGPT subscriptions and are on the lookout for alternative, so we think it's good time to take a look at Qwen.
Open-source LLM where you don't need to create an account. So take a look!
Tool of the week
Insights
- Qwen 3.5 Series GPTQ-Int4 updates
- The new EF Public Grant Explorer is live
- Instagram quietly drops end-to-end encrypted chats
- Signal and WhatsApp accounts of govt. officials targeted by Russian hackers
- Ethereum Foundation board has released an EF Mandate
Knowledge
- Take a look at EFF's Five inspirational women in Tech
- Why giving credit is important by Privacy Guides
- Hacker broke into FBI and compromised Epstein files
- The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
- Moltbook has been aquired by Meta
Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web
- Take a look at winners of Privacy Awards 2025
- Naomi Brockwell video on Surveillance
- Check out the W3PN Academy Shorts
- Take our new Academy Course - ZK for not tech, done in collaboration with Oskarth
- Web3 Privacy Now courses in our Academy
Inspiration: Going Off(Line) an offering of IRL events
*(new/changes in **bold**)*
- Mar 30 - Apr 10 - Farcaster Agentic Bootcamp
- Apr 15–16 - Paris Blockchain Week - Paris, France
- May 5-8 - RightsCon Zambia
- May 8-10 - ETHPrague Prague, Czech Republic
- May 13-14 - ETHCluj Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Jun 16-17 - Dapcon 26 Berlin, Germany
- Jun 18-19 - Web3 Summit Berlin, Germany
- Jul 8-12 - DWebCamp Berlin, Germany
- Nov 2 - Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress #3 Mumbai, India