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Week in the Privacy News 2026-36
Good Monday, friends of privacy! This week we will cover everything from personal health-data sovereignty, AI in open-source development, resistance to digital surveillance, blockchain security failur
Aug 31, 2026m
Good Monday, friends of privacy!
This week we will cover everything from personal health-data sovereignty, AI in open-source development, resistance to digital surveillance, blockchain security failures and beyond.
And for tool of the week, Dark Bio's Ark - user-owned device that stores genomic and health data locally and runs analyses without exposing the underlying information to external services.
Tool of the week
Insights
- Dark Bio introduces Ark I, a privacy tool designed to move beyond trust-based privacy policies
- Debian approves responsible use of generative AI in project contributions
- NEAR compares its production-ready infrastructure with Ethereum, Solana and Zcash
- Research explores how adversarial clothing can make people invisible to AI object detectors
- GrapheneOS raises concerns over Google removing memory-tagging support from the Pixel 11
Knowledge
- EU designates ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox as very large services under the Digital Services Act
- Zakura explains how security parameters shape private information retrieval
- Brave launches Email Aliases to hide users’ real email addresses
- US designates privacy-focused collective Autistici/Inventati as a global terrorist organization
- Cronos halts its blockchain following a $75 million exploit targeting Tectonic
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
- Investigating Flock: America's Mass Surveillance Company
- 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**)*
- Sep 1 - Web3Privacy Now Meetup - Amsterdam - Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Sep 4-5 - Common S3nse - Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Sep 13–15 - ETHTaipei - Taipei, Taiwan
- Sep 15–16 - European Blockchain Convention - Barcelona, Spain
- Sep 18 - Web3Privacy Now Meetup - Tokyo - Tokyo, Japan
- Sep 19–27 - ETHTokyo - Tokyo, Japan
- Oct 27 - Web3Privacy Now x MozFest Meetup - Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain
- Oxt 28-30 - MozFest - Mozilla Festival - Barcelona, Spain
- Nov 2 - Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress #3 - Mumbai, India
- Nov 3-6 - Devcon Mumbai - Mumbai, India