Week in the Privacy News 2026-20

Good Monday, friends of privacy!

First, thank you to everyone who came to our Prague, Rome or Cluj meetups - eternal love. And while it truly is nice to meet each other and discuss privacy in real world, the news still keep coming. So here is your round-up of what happend everywhere.

As you can see, lot of people are now noticing how it isn't advisible to have everything tied to one Google email. So in name of de-googling ourselves, let's take a look at Kagi, our tool of this week.

Tool of the week

• Kagi - privacy first browser

Insights

• Kagi Browser presents their search shortcut systems called Kagi Snaps
• Signal begins testing automatic key verification for encrypted chats
• Tezos launches quantum-resistant private payments prototype on testnet
• Encryption Supremacy: Zcash and Privacy in the Age of Scale
• European Commision on How Web3 Can Support European Creativity and Copyright

Knowledge

• Case study on problems of having everything tied to one Google mail account
• "Don't sign in with google" - And what to do instead?
• Email, Spam, Privacy, and the Drift Toward Centralization
• Zcash Leads Privacy Coin Surge
• A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker

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

• 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**)*

• 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