Week in Privacy News - 14/2024

gm privacy humans!

things are heating up with planning Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress, with over 1.4K registrations. Check out what we've got planned for you ❤

at the risk of sounding too corporate - our Q3 delivery report is here! see what we have been up to these months.

in other news:

Women in web3 Privacy is moving fast - here's what's on their menu this season.

aperitivo: launching their website

appetizer: a panel at the Cypherpunk Congress

side (event) dish: announcing their devcon side event

dessert: starting a telegram community

digestif: releasing their first Lectures Pilot

there's always room for gelato! they just got featured in The Block

we're happy to see this community gaining momentum.

now, let's dive into the latest news in web3 privacy world!

• Backlight Launching Blacklight Query, a Tool to Scan Websites for Privacy at Scale

• Horizen Q3 Report

• Haven Protocol GUI update 4.1 - New Release

• PlatON Partnership with Uxuycom to integrate the #UXUY Telegram Wallet

• EFF Salt Typhoon Hack Shows There's No Security Backdoor That's Only For The "Good Guys"

• Cointelegraph Blockchain fixes misuse of biometric data — Privado ID founder

• Cryptology ePrint Archive Drifting Towards Better Error Probabilities in Fully Homomorphic Encryption Schemes

• Cryptology ePrint Archive Quantum Security of a Compact Multi-Signature

• Cryptology ePrint Archive Updatable Privacy-Preserving Blueprints

• Cryptology ePrint Archive Fake It till You Make It: Enhancing Security of Bluetooth Secure Connections via Deferrable Authentication

• Cryptology ePrint Archive Homomorphic Encryption with Authority

• None of your business: privacy & crypto talk RAILGUN

• Death and rebirth in the phase of paradigm shifts Nym Community Call

• EFFecting Change: How to Protest with Privacy in Mind EFF

• Driving Adoption of Privacy - Paul Puey ETHDam 2024

• Future of identity-centric blockchain AdLunam Podcast

• How Web3 navigates the balance between transparency and privacy on public chains reDeFining RWA at Token2049

In a tangled world wide web of information, a jungle where every option seems to have a hidden gotcha, we have all have become sceptical of the motives behind each and every source of information As the debate around technology's impact on society intensifies, privacy has taken centre stage. Many of us, who once treated privacy as an afterthought, are now asking: "Where do I even start?"

That's where you—the techno-optimist—comes into the picture.

To empower peers and future users according to their privacy, risk, and transparency needs, we invite you to list your project on the Web3Privacy Explorer. It doesn’t matter if it’s your own project, or your favorite tool.

cont. reading our Mirror post about the Explorer here

This weeks spotlight is on Waku!

With it's shining 83% score, I asked one of their contributors Václav Pavlín some questions:

How is Waku different from other protocols? Waku does not compromise on privacy, censorship resistance and permissionless nature. It's aim is to enable any project to onboard quickly on an extensive network of p2p nodes and focus on your protocol, rather than bootstrapping and building a network from scratch.

What’s the next hot feature Waku is working on? There is a lot going on - end-to-end reliability protocol is huge, incentivization, RLN on mainnet with variable rate limits per user, Store sync to make sure all store nodes return same history...

How would you sum up Waku team culture in one word? Open.

That's it on the Explorer and don't forget to add your favorite projects here!

(new/changes in bold)

• Nov 7-9, DeFi Security Summit Bangkok

• Nov 11, Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress Bangkok

• Nov 11, Parallel Society Congress Bangkok

• Nov 13, Women in web3Privacy Side Event Bangkok

• Nov 14 Intents & Chain Abstraction Summit Bangkok

• Nov 12-15, devcon Bangkok

"there is no meaningful future for cryptocurrency without privacy" penumbra

Until next week - and let's make privacy sexy.