Week in the Privacy News 2026-30

Good Monday, friends of privacy!

A lot has been said about Artificial Intelligence, its cons and pros, and regardless of what one might think, it definitely is a tool to be reckoned with. This whole week has been huge in terms on news coming from the realm of AI, Agents and chatbots.

So let's take a look into it and more news, as well as for our Tool of the week - Qwen!

Tool of the week

• Qwen AI - open foundation model for AGI, soon to be open-weight

Insights

• Proton explains how firewalls protect devices and networks
• Walletbeat explains how its wallet ratings push the ecosystem forward
• Euki rankes highest as most private period tracking tool by Mozilla
• MetaMask uncovers a North Korean operative inside its development team
• Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 as its largest open-source model yet

Knowledge

• VPN industry welcomes the UK government’s decision to avoid restrictions
• Burnham moves to scrap Starmer’s national digital ID scheme
• San Francisco orders Apple and Google to remove nudification apps
• Internet Freedom Foundation shares its latest digital-rights update
• Generative AI can't duplicate dancing. Yet

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

• Get the book The Politics of Privacy: Autonomy and Power in the Digital Age
• Check the State of Decentralised Privacy report
• The Digital Independence They Don't Want You To Have by Naomi Brockwell
• Web3 Privacy Now courses in our Academy

Inspiration: Going Off(Line) an offering of IRL events

*(new/changes in **bold**)*

• 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