This list reflects all legitimate nominations submitted by the community in an alphabetical order - it is not a ranking. The final winner will be revealed in the official awards announcement.Event of the Year — Longlist39c3 — Chaos Communication CongressUdbhav Tiwari and Meredith Whittaker: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ai-agent-ai-spyHosted in Hamburg, Germany, 39c3 gathered thousands of hackers, researchers, and digital rights advocates for talks and workshops focused on cryptography, surveil...

This list reflects all legitimate nominations submitted by the community in an alphabetical order - it is not a ranking. The final winner will be revealed in the official awards announcement.Event of the Year — Longlist39c3 — Chaos Communication CongressUdbhav Tiwari and Meredith Whittaker: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ai-agent-ai-spyHosted in Hamburg, Germany, 39c3 gathered thousands of hackers, researchers, and digital rights advocates for talks and workshops focused on cryptography, surveil...

From courtroom battles to cryptographic breakthroughs, from cypherpunk congresses to regulatory overreach, the 2025 edition reflects a maturing but contested privacy stack - the results of the annual Privacy Awards are here. “Privacy Awards” is an annual initiative facilitated by the Web3Privacy Now. It highlights key projects, innovations, events, news and doxxers selected by contributors across the ecosystem — developers, researchers, founders, cryptographers, cypherpunks and community buil...

From courtroom battles to cryptographic breakthroughs, from cypherpunk congresses to regulatory overreach, the 2025 edition reflects a maturing but contested privacy stack - the results of the annual Privacy Awards are here. “Privacy Awards” is an annual initiative facilitated by the Web3Privacy Now. It highlights key projects, innovations, events, news and doxxers selected by contributors across the ecosystem — developers, researchers, founders, cryptographers, cypherpunks and community buil...

IntroductionWith growing regulatory pressures, centralised control over communication and financial systems, and the rapid evolution of AI and surveillance technologies, we are at a crossroads.The coming years represent one of our last windows to build and use secure and privacy-preserving technologies before the current paradigm solidifies for a decade or more. The challenge is clear: secure global communications cannot depend on incremental adoption by existing systems. We need a fundamenta...

IntroductionWith growing regulatory pressures, centralised control over communication and financial systems, and the rapid evolution of AI and surveillance technologies, we are at a crossroads.The coming years represent one of our last windows to build and use secure and privacy-preserving technologies before the current paradigm solidifies for a decade or more. The challenge is clear: secure global communications cannot depend on incremental adoption by existing systems. We need a fundamenta...

This list reflects all legitimate nominations submitted by the community. It is not a ranking. The final result will be revealed in the official awards announcement.Governments & Legislative InitiativesEuropean Union — Chat Control InitiativeFight Chat ControlLearn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.https://fightchatcontrol.euNominated for advancing legislation that would mandate client-side scanning and potentially we...

This list reflects all legitimate nominations submitted by the community. It is not a ranking. The final result will be revealed in the official awards announcement.Governments & Legislative InitiativesEuropean Union — Chat Control InitiativeFight Chat ControlLearn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.https://fightchatcontrol.euNominated for advancing legislation that would mandate client-side scanning and potentially we...

Every year, our community nominates projects across categories that celebrate the evolving privacy ecosystem. Today we begin with the Best Privacy Projects Category Longlist — a preview before the official winners are announced. This list represents all legitimate projects nominated for Best Privacy Project in the 2025 Privacy Awards. It is not a ranking, but a recognition of impact and contribution across the privacy landscape.Detailed overview — 89 projects14 non-Web3 general privacy soluti...

Every year, our community nominates projects across categories that celebrate the evolving privacy ecosystem. Today we begin with the Best Privacy Projects Category Longlist — a preview before the official winners are announced. This list represents all legitimate projects nominated for Best Privacy Project in the 2025 Privacy Awards. It is not a ranking, but a recognition of impact and contribution across the privacy landscape.Detailed overview — 89 projects14 non-Web3 general privacy soluti...