Week in the Privacy News 15/2026
Good Monday, friends of privacy! Chance is, with the beggining of spring time and weather getting warmer, you might have missed some key news. Don't worry, we got you covered! From Iran accepting Bitcoin for payments, FBI retrieving deleted Signal messages...
Good Monday, friends of privacy!
Chance is, with the beggining of spring-time and weather getting warmer, you might have missed some key news. Don't worry, we got you covered! From Iran accepting Bitcoin for payments, FBI retrieving deleted Signal messages from iPhones all the way to EFF leaving Twitter. You can find it all here.
Althought, some people might not be able to due to censorship - and that is why we want to highlight the Freedom Browser, website created to help people suffering from the stirct censorship of websites & games.
Tool of the week
Insights
- Freedom Browser v0.6.2 brings support for Radicle and much more
- Iran now accepts Bitcoin payments for Strait of Hormuz transit
- ZCash update from ZODL
- Synchronous Composability Between Rollups via Realtime Proving
- Electronic Frontier Foundation are leaving Twitter
Knowledge
- Session says funding will last until July, pauses development
- Web3 means Freedom Software by Joel Thorst
- 47 Crypto OpSec Failures reviewed
- Read EFF's Leaving Twitter's Walled Garden article from 2022
- FBI retrieved deleted Signal messages from iPhone notification database
Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web
- Privacy Isn’t a Defence - It’s how we build new worlds| Rachel-Rose O'Leary (DarkFi)
- Privacy Guide's interview with Cindy Cohn from EFF
- 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
- Apr 28 - Global Onchain Summit - Dubai, UAE
- May 5-8 - RightsCon Zambia
- May 5–7 - Consensus 2026 - Austin, USA
- May 8-10 - ETHPrague Prague, Czech Republic
- May 13-14 - ETHCluj Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- May 21 -22 - ETHMilan 2026 Milan, Italy
- Jun 8–10 - ETHConf - New York, USA
- Jun 16-17 - Dapcon 26 Berlin, Germany
- Jun 18-19 - Web3 Summit Berlin, Germany
- Jul 8-12 - DWebCamp Berlin, Germany
- Aug 14–16 - HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) - New York, USA
- Nov 2 - Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress #3 Mumbai, India