Week in the Privacy News 12/2026
Good Monday, friends of privacy! Last week brought lots of attention to age verification laws implementation and so made people think about counters and impacts. But amidst these restriction it is exactly privacy focused tools and projects that need support...
Good Monday, friends of privacy!
Last week brought lots of attention to age verification laws implementation and so made people think about counters and impacts.
But amidst these restriction it is exactly privacy focused tools and projects that need support as they can enable us to fight for our rights.
So as a tool of this week we nominate Human Passport, privacy-preserving digital identity tool that lets you prove you’re a real person online without revealing your personal data.
Tool of the week
Insights
- From Gitcoin to human.tech: piece of history of Human Passport
- GrapheneOS refuses to comply with age rectriction laws
- iOs hardening guide for people who still prefer iPhone to Graphene phones
- Ethereum Foundatio's Deeper Look at a New Protocol Cluster Priority
- FBI is buying data that can be used to track people
Knowledge
- Take a look at EFF's Five inspirational women in Tech
- How Private Messaging Keeps Medical Records Safe and Compliant in Europe by Kayli Lewis
- Severe Meta Cybersecurity Incident Caused by AI Agent
- Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control
- AI Safety chief from Meta couln't stop their own agent
Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web
- "Privacy is not protection. It's a weapon" interview with Amir Taaki
- Seth for Privacy about Lightning and Cake Wallet
- 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
- Mar 30 - Apr 2 - EthCC Cannes, France
- 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
- May 21 -22 - ETHMilan 2026 Milan, Italy
- 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