Welcome to the historical debut - the first edition (#1) of Week In The Privacy News.

Privacy awareness starts in 1,2,3

Have you ever tried to follow privacy news? Spending hours & hours every week & still lacking a clear picture of the latest updates.

The Web3Privacy Now community solves this issue

Every week - 1 curated round-up of the most important news related to privacy in the Web3. Freedom, security and decentralisation topics as a bonus.

Production team: the Web3Privacy Now community members. We are passionate about privacy and through many activities such as research, education or IRL events we try to connect people with the same interests or spread these ideas to the wider public.

Join us: all our activities are open-source and community-based, so you can freely contribute with your news:

• send us a tip in our News channel on Matrix

• add the news item directly to the repository on GitHub

• or share them with us on X

Learn more about the Week in the Privacy News in our Documentation.

- Tree

Feb 5 - Feb 11, 2024

Research

• Week in the Privacy News: new weekly summary of the most important news from ecosystem

• Pavol Lupták: Brave is not a true privacy-oriented browser

• Zac Williamson: thread about visions of a dystopian future when we fail

• Wired: experience with Passkeys

Ecosystem

• Logos, Nomos, Waku, Codex, Status and others now federated under the Institute of Free Technology

• Binance Will Delist XMR on 2024-02-20 (src)

• Binance delisting sparks privacy concerns: Financial Times article on Monero delisting

• Brave Nightly support Zcash in their integrated wallet (only unshielded transactions for now)

• WalletConnect launches Web3Modal Analytics, showing that they doesn't mind tracking own users

• Session team announced upcoming upgrade from Oxen Network to Session Network

• Skiff was acquired by Notion and will wind down its services in 6 months (src)

Releases

• Brume Wallet v0.5: UI enhancements, faster startup, cleaner onboarding

Podcasts

• War on privacy in Web3?: with Zach Williamson, CEO at Aztec Protocol

• Function of privacy in DeFi: @robbie_rollup and Lou Waroo from Houdini Swap, cross-chain DEX and liquidity agreggator

• Drama is the Prime Indicator of Decentralisation: with Dr. Nick Almond from Factory DAO (src)

Community

• DAO Privacy: X space with Gnosis Guild, Safe, Shutter Network, ShapeShift & Fractal (src)

Other

• Defunkt: The co-founder and former CEO of GitHub has been banned from GitHub (without explanation) (src)

• Citrea: Bitcoin's first ZK Rollup (src)

• Liberation Travel Hacks 02/2024 from Liberation Travel (subscribe)

• Canada moves to ban Flipper Zero over car hacking fears (src)

Upcoming events

• Feb 20, Binance delisting Monero

• Apr 10, zkSummit (Athens) conference

• Apr 12-14, ETHDam hackathon

• May 24-26, ETHBerlin hackathon

• May 30, Web3Privacy Now Summit (Prague) conference

• Jun 7-9, MoneroKon (Prague) conference & hackathon

• Jun 19-26, Web3Privacy Now Hackathon (Bled)

• Oct 4-6, Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis (HCPP) (Prague) conference

• Oct, Web3Privacy Now Summit (Brno) conference

• Oct, ETHBrno hackathon

Do you know of any other major Web3 privacy-related event that should be included in this list? Let us know!

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