Week in the Privacy News 2026-27

Good Monday, friends of privacy!

Althought there was a shorter break from newsletters, there was, nor will there ever be, a break from rooting from privacy. Amazing Neocypherpunk Summit is in the books and while we can't wait for the Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress 3 in Mumbai, here is fresh batch of privacy news for you.

This time, kicking it off with EthLabs as the tool of the week!

Tool of the week

• EthLabs - a non-profit R&D lab for Ethereum and ETH

Insights

• EthLabs has celebrated first week
• Nearly a million passports just exposed on the public internet
• Sooraj from Brave Browser launched Site Behaviour Lab
• EU votes for or against mass surveillance today, sign petition at FightChatControl.eu
• Signal chats cited in Minneapolis protest indictment via Freedom of the Press Foundation

Knowledge

• Values, culture, tech. Why I'm joining Ethlabs - article by Barnabe Monnoth from Ethereum
• Mullvad's co-founder supports and funds Swedish far right political party
• ml_sudo on EthLabs and Ethereum Foundation
• Check VPN Scorecard to see how all VPNs compare
• What Europe Is Building Instead

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

• Check the State of Decentralised Privacy report
• The Adversary Is Watching: What Can We Learn From Communities Under Surveillance | Ramy Raoof Halim)
• 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**)*

• Jul 8–12 - DWebCamp - Berlin, Germany
• Jul 23–26 - ETHGlobal Lisbon - Lisbon, Portugal
• Aug 14–16 - HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) - New York, USA
• Aug 26–27 - ETH Belgrade - Belgrade, Serbia
• Sep 13–15 - ETHTaipei - Taipei, Taiwan
• Sep 15–16 - European Blockchain Convention - Barcelona, Spain
• Sep 19–27 - ETHTokyo - Tokyo, Japan
• Nov 2 - Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress #3 - Mumbai, India