This is the second of a series of articles covering the results of the #2023privacyproof poll: final longlist announcement before publishing shortlist. Explore the “Projects” category selection.

The selection of the Major news & events was made by 100+ privacy enthusiasts, developers, researchers, cryptographers, cypherpunks, and community builders from the DarkFi, Nym, Swarm, Logos, HOPR, Railgun_, Circles UBI, Rotki, Puzzle, Espresso Systems & many other organisations.

• KZG Ceremony

• Signal support for usernames

• Ethereum nodes censoring transactions from OFAC lists

• Tornado Cash still working - the power of distributed frontends

• Namada RPGF Airdrop

• Zcash Orchard to MIT

• Metamask IP logging

• Various Ledger issues (SIM Swap / Ledger Connect NPM attack / Firmware upgrade = mnemonic exposure)

• Monero switching to full anonymity set membership proofs

• OpenAI violating privacy

• NFT can actually doxx

• Validators censoring blocks & RPCs logging IP

• Aztec Connect shutdown

• Rise of testnets & communities with @AleoHQ, @AutoEcologies & @namada

• Growing Use of generative AI to make fake content from real persons.

• Increase in data breaches because of poor web2 privacy (social engineering)

• Billions of Intel processors (i.e. most your devices and the Internet) have a critical weakness allowing attackers to steal passwords, encryption keys, private data, etc.

• Plans to drop 3rd party cookies announced by major browser vendors

• Launch of ChatGPT

• Launch of Worldcoin

• Growing privacy lawsuits against Open AI (e.g. New York Times)

• KYC being enforced on Bitcoin miners

• The overall rise of privacy-focused projects as well as general public awareness

• 

  DeFi Education Fund

  @fund_defi

  DEF is proud to support the industry by filing amicus briefs in precedent-setting cases, such as Harper v. IRS, which involves a John Doe subpoena to Coinbase that resulted in over 14,000 users’ private financial information being sent to the IRS.
  
  Our CLO @amandatums breaks down

  

  Amanda Tuminelli

  @amandatums

  Today, @fund_DeFi submitted an amicus brief in the Harper v. IRS appeal (pending in the 1st Cir) to ensure the court understands the unique Fourth Amendment concerns in allowing the government unfettered access to US citizen’s crypto tx history.

  18

  4:48 PM • Oct 20, 2023

• Meta / Facebook products rolling out e2ee for their apps

• the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act

• CoinCenter lawsuit challenging Tornado Cash ruling is dismissed

• The proposal of the Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act in Congress by Elizabeth Warren

• EU's MiCa rules for un-hosted wallets

• UK's FATF Crypto Travel Rule

• Changes on X / Twitter

• Record-level health data leak from NZ

• Do-Not-Track is back on track!

• The introduction of new compliance regulations for cryptocurrency mixers

• Alex Perchev's release via Bail in April 2023 and his trial

• Tornado Cash contract put on OFAC

• GDPR expansion to US companies collecting data of EU citizens to comply regardless of their location.

• DoJ vs. Tornado Cash

• Countries start banning Worldcoin iris scanning over privacy concerns and predatory practices in the global south

• Advances in Financial Technologies 2023 @ Princeton University

• Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands data breach

• a) Ashton Kutcher lobbying the EU to roll out mass surveillance via client-side scanning, supposedly to “protect the children”, but definitely to sell his product. I kid you not. This is one of the first big examples of how cryptographic advancements like FHE unfortunately will enable a dangerous form of “privacy washing” in policy and public debates.

  b) The hard work of EDRi to counter this and prevent the worst of the bill from going through.

• European Parliament rejects 'Chat control' proposal

• Privacy winning over transparency: Bankrupt crypto companies are convincing courts to keep their customers’ data under seal

• OFAC

• Canadians rejecting Bank of Canada's ability to issue or manage a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)

• The Online Safety Act

• EU Digital Identity Wallet plans announced, to bake this into one of the world’s largest markets

• Privacy coins being delisted from Binance & other exchanges

• ETHDam 2023

• Ephemeral_001 by Black Sky Society

• The ETHRome hackathon

• The Web3Privacy Now conference in Rome

• Monerotopia in Mexico City

• MoneroKon in Prague

• EthBrno cancelled

• Hackers Congress Paralelni Polis (HCPP)

• Zuzalu

• Web3Privacy Now Summit in Prague

• So many Web3 privacy-focused hackathons in 2023 (W3PN note: count as 1 selection)

51% of the news - regulator-related. Tornado Cash case, Privacy coins delisting & anti end-to-end encryption cases bother majority of the privacy enthusiasts.

19 of the 51 news are “positive”, while “32” (or 62.7%) have negative connotations - a clear signal from the pro-privacy community.

The majority of the contributions are public & can be found on Twitter: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 etc.

• Read the “Projects” category final longlist here

• And the next article featuring “Exciting innovation” (longlist) will be published tomorrow.

Follow #2023privacyproof updates: Twitter/X, GitHub, Matrix

This is the second of a series of articles covering the results of the #2023privacyproof poll: final longlist announcement before publishing shortlist. Explore the “Projects” category selection.

The selection of the Major news & events was made by 100+ privacy enthusiasts, developers, researchers, cryptographers, cypherpunks, and community builders from the DarkFi, Nym, Swarm, Logos, HOPR, Railgun_, Circles UBI, Rotki, Puzzle, Espresso Systems & many other organisations.

• KZG Ceremony

• Signal support for usernames

• Ethereum nodes censoring transactions from OFAC lists

• Tornado Cash still working - the power of distributed frontends

• Namada RPGF Airdrop

• Zcash Orchard to MIT

• Metamask IP logging

• Various Ledger issues (SIM Swap / Ledger Connect NPM attack / Firmware upgrade = mnemonic exposure)

• Monero switching to full anonymity set membership proofs

• OpenAI violating privacy

• NFT can actually doxx

• Validators censoring blocks & RPCs logging IP

• Aztec Connect shutdown

• Rise of testnets & communities with @AleoHQ, @AutoEcologies & @namada

• Growing Use of generative AI to make fake content from real persons.

• Increase in data breaches because of poor web2 privacy (social engineering)

• Billions of Intel processors (i.e. most your devices and the Internet) have a critical weakness allowing attackers to steal passwords, encryption keys, private data, etc.

• Plans to drop 3rd party cookies announced by major browser vendors

• Launch of ChatGPT

• Launch of Worldcoin

• Growing privacy lawsuits against Open AI (e.g. New York Times)

• KYC being enforced on Bitcoin miners

• The overall rise of privacy-focused projects as well as general public awareness

• 

  DeFi Education Fund

  @fund_defi

  DEF is proud to support the industry by filing amicus briefs in precedent-setting cases, such as Harper v. IRS, which involves a John Doe subpoena to Coinbase that resulted in over 14,000 users’ private financial information being sent to the IRS.
  
  Our CLO @amandatums breaks down

  

  Amanda Tuminelli

  @amandatums

  Today, @fund_DeFi submitted an amicus brief in the Harper v. IRS appeal (pending in the 1st Cir) to ensure the court understands the unique Fourth Amendment concerns in allowing the government unfettered access to US citizen’s crypto tx history.

  18

  4:48 PM • Oct 20, 2023

• Meta / Facebook products rolling out e2ee for their apps

• the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act

• CoinCenter lawsuit challenging Tornado Cash ruling is dismissed

• The proposal of the Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act in Congress by Elizabeth Warren

• EU's MiCa rules for un-hosted wallets

• UK's FATF Crypto Travel Rule

• Changes on X / Twitter

• Record-level health data leak from NZ

• Do-Not-Track is back on track!

• The introduction of new compliance regulations for cryptocurrency mixers

• Alex Perchev's release via Bail in April 2023 and his trial

• Tornado Cash contract put on OFAC

• GDPR expansion to US companies collecting data of EU citizens to comply regardless of their location.

• DoJ vs. Tornado Cash

• Countries start banning Worldcoin iris scanning over privacy concerns and predatory practices in the global south

• Advances in Financial Technologies 2023 @ Princeton University

• Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands data breach

• a) Ashton Kutcher lobbying the EU to roll out mass surveillance via client-side scanning, supposedly to “protect the children”, but definitely to sell his product. I kid you not. This is one of the first big examples of how cryptographic advancements like FHE unfortunately will enable a dangerous form of “privacy washing” in policy and public debates.

  b) The hard work of EDRi to counter this and prevent the worst of the bill from going through.

• European Parliament rejects 'Chat control' proposal

• Privacy winning over transparency: Bankrupt crypto companies are convincing courts to keep their customers’ data under seal

• OFAC

• Canadians rejecting Bank of Canada's ability to issue or manage a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)

• The Online Safety Act

• EU Digital Identity Wallet plans announced, to bake this into one of the world’s largest markets

• Privacy coins being delisted from Binance & other exchanges

• ETHDam 2023

• Ephemeral_001 by Black Sky Society

• The ETHRome hackathon

• The Web3Privacy Now conference in Rome

• Monerotopia in Mexico City

• MoneroKon in Prague

• EthBrno cancelled

• Hackers Congress Paralelni Polis (HCPP)

• Zuzalu

• Web3Privacy Now Summit in Prague

• So many Web3 privacy-focused hackathons in 2023 (W3PN note: count as 1 selection)

51% of the news - regulator-related. Tornado Cash case, Privacy coins delisting & anti end-to-end encryption cases bother majority of the privacy enthusiasts.

19 of the 51 news are “positive”, while “32” (or 62.7%) have negative connotations - a clear signal from the pro-privacy community.

The majority of the contributions are public & can be found on Twitter: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 etc.

• Read the “Projects” category final longlist here

• And the next article featuring “Exciting innovation” (longlist) will be published tomorrow.

Follow #2023privacyproof updates: Twitter/X, GitHub, Matrix