Week in the Privacy News 2026-21

Good Monday, friends of privacy!

At this point we all probably heard about the alleged leaks, another push for Age Surveillance laws and others, but lot of good has happened as well.

Be it events as EthCC, Mullvad fixing their fingerprinting flaw and what brings the most joy to us - Tor Project and Funding the Commons campaign for Internet Freedom, the Tool of the Week.

Tool of the week

• Internet Freedom campaign by Tor and Funding the Commons

Insights

• Tor and Funding the Commons has launched crowdfunding campaing to support free internet
• Tails 7.8 is out
• Perspecives on future of Ethereum by it's founder, Vitalik Buterin
• ZCash update by Josh Swihart

Knowledge

• Concrete Steps to Fight Back against Digital Surveillance by Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Bitcoin for Nonprofits: A Guide To Help Your Movement Achieve Financial Freedom
• South Carolina’s New Social Media Law Puts Every User Under Age Surveillance
• Is Crypto Dead? Why Experts from EthCC9 Still Believe in Web3
• Mullvad confirms VPN fingerprinting flaw, says fix is on the way

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

• Sometimes Freedom Looks Like a Message Arriving | the Tor Project + Funding the Commons pwrd by W3PN
• Privacy Isn’t a Feature. It’s Who You Are // Chris McCabe (Session)
• 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 28-29 - Unchained Summit 2026 - Da Nang, Vietnam
• Jun 2-3 - Proof of Talk - Paris, France
• Jun 8–10 - ETHConf - New York, USA
• Jun 14 - Neocypherpunk Summit by Web3Privacy Now - Berlin, Germany
• 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