# #w3pnews: April Dispatch

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**Published by:** [#w3pnews](https://paragraph.com/@w3pnews/)
**Published on:** 2025-05-15
**Categories:** privacy, digitalrights, activism, web3privacy
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@w3pnews/w3pnews-april-dispatch

## Content

The Newsletter returns after a month break. Not because we vanished, but because time is an illusion and calendars are a surveillance tool. During our brief disappearance some protocols evolved, some institutions unraveled and, at least one AI hallucinated an entire career in privacy law. So what's new? The structure remains the same, though now with slightly more curation, and an alarming level of emotional attachment to some of these columns. (0) Homebase This is the part where we (web3privacy) check in. Not releases, not product updates, this is where we track our own weather: what moved, what stalled, and what made us feel slightly more alive. (1) Stuff You Should Know We don’t catch everything, but we catch what matters. Sometimes it’s loud. Sometimes it’s buried under 13 tabs and a deleted post. Surveillance, legislation, quiet takeovers, and those small changes that ripple for months, and the world continues to happen. (2) From the Repo Trenches Releases, upgrades, forks, heroic git commits, it’s all here, - dropped by people who should probably sleep more. (3) The Voices No, not those voices. They are the other ones - the ones you choose to listen to instead of doomscrolling, or the ones that you pause to read. Podcasts, rants, interviews, words stitched together by actual people with microphones or pens. The machines may generate, but they still don’t create like this. (4) Coordinates Sometimes the best way to resist is to show up in the flesh. And sometimes the resistance has snacks. Here’s where the hands, hugs, and hallway chats are happening. Whether you’re speaking, sketching, watching, or just trying to find your people, these are the places to check in.(0) Homebase: here’s what we’ve been up to (on purpose or otherwise)Berlin Hackathon: Applications are open, the spreadsheets are multiplying, and someone may or may not be building the ultimate web3 privacy tech army. We launched X Spaces: Listen to a fun (yes, fun!) space with Jarrad Hope, or dip your toes into regulation with EUCI. If you're feeling spicy, head over to the Memathon Space. @winprivacy Digest: onboarding calls, Safe Space Event, spotlighting. Moving fast and with intention. This Very Newsletter: Yes, it’s back, with a quiet determination of something that refused to be deleted.(1) Stuff You Should Know: headlines we didn’t ignore Google Embraces ZKs for Enhanced Privacy in Digital IDs ChatGPT, AI, and the Future of Privacy CPJ, Partners Condemn Saudi Arabia’s Press Freedom Record Ahead of Trump’s Visit Greece: Deterioration in Press Freedom Turkey: Controversial Law on Cybersecurity is Seen as Censorship Tool Trump Administration’s Targeting of International Students Jeopardizes Free Speech and Privacy Online TikTok’s Terms of Service Breakdown Signal Update Fends Off a Phishing Technique Used in Russian Espionage(2) From the Repo Trenches: the nerdy stuff Privacy Pools Mainnet Launch Aztec Public Testnet DarkFi Testnet Alpha v0.2 Calimero 0.6.0 Noir v1.0.0-beta.3 Panther Protocol Limited Mainnet Beta Straightforward Construction of Indistinguishability Obfuscation (iO) Encrypted Image Watermarking Using Fully Homomorphic Encryption and Zama Concrete ML The Holy Trinity of Censorship Resistance in Ethereum Nori: Ethereum–Mina ZK Bridge BNB Chain is at War with MEV — Shutter has the Weapon to Win It Deep Trust: Verifiable Identity and Reputation for AI Agents(3) The Voices: ideas, culture, media, the human layer Confidentiality Matters - Interview with a Janitor The Co-Writer of TLS Says We’ve Lost the Privacy Plot Privacy as a Social Problem, Not a Technology Problem What Comes After the Nation State? What I Wish I Knew About Privacy Sooner The Evolution of Privacy Coins(4) Coordinates: where the humans are. May 23-24, ETHBratislava May 27-29, ETHPrague May 29, Web3Privacy Meetup ETHPrague June 3-5, ETHBelgrade June 10-11, Funding the Commons Berlin Blockchain Week June 12-13, Protocol Berg v2 Berlin Blockchain Week June 13-14, W3PN_Hacks Berlin Blockchain Week June 14, @winprivacy Safe Space Berlin Blockchain Week June 16-18 DappCon Berlin Blockchain Week June 19, NoirCon Berlin Blockchain Week June 20-22, MoneroKon Prague June 26-28, ETHCluj Collected by a human. Curated with care. #w3pnews, by Alina Latinina p.s. when you see a post on X and it feels like resistance, tag #w3pnews

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