This is the forth article covering #2024privacyproof poll results: highlighting longlist of contributions before revealing key winners.

Privacy proof is an annual awards facilitated by the Web3Privacy now collective. It aims to feature key projects, news, innovations & doxxers of the market selected by 80+ enthusiasts, developers, researchers, cryptographers, cypherpunks, and community builders from the Ethereum, Nym, Logos, Railgun, , Aztec, ZK Sync, dappnode, Electric Coin & Co. & many other organisations.

All individual contributions are available via Fileverse Portal

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• projects category longlist here

• exciting innovation category longlist here

• doxxer category longlist here

1. Apple caller ID using PIR

2. Tornado positive ruling

3. Samourai devs arrested

4. Chat control got rejected

5. Gary Gensler is finished

6. FBI tells people to use encrypted apps instead of SMS

7. TEE GPUs becoming viable faster than initially thought

8. The attacks on encryption from EU governments and others 


9. Mark Andreeesen and friends pushing surveillance tech and police partnership for their network states 

10. Exiled Russian Opposition Leader Launches Blockchain-Based Referendum

11. Age verification (i.e. mandatory doxxing) laws passing in the US and Europe

12. Namada

13. Penumbra

14. Apple native integration of ChatGPT

15. Anti-crypto army losing US elections

16. Web3Privacy

17. Buenos Aires adopts verifiable credentials

18. Julian Assange being freed!

19. NIST Releases First 3 Finalized Post-Quantum Encryption Standards

20. Firn sunset

21. Android RCS

22. E2EE enabled by Signal Protocol finally rolled out

23. The arrest of Pavel Durov

24. Chainalysis XMR video

25. Women in Web3 Privacy established

26. Multiple Monero Exchange delistings

27. Regulatory Actions Against Worldcoin

28. National Public Data Breach -2.9 billion records were compromised

29. American Privacy Rights Act & Arrest of Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev

30. Monero's leak

31. Viral Chainalysis video suggesting Monero transactions may be traceable

32. Trump elections

33. Salt Typhoon Telecom Breaches

34. Snowflake Customer Breaches

35. Chat control getting blocked again

36. China hacked the whole US unencrypted telco system

37. US recommendation to use end to end encryption

38. Midnight Blizzard attack on Microsoft

39. EU AI Act

40. Cypherpunk freedom: Assange, Ross (soon)

41. Dawn of the new zk era

42. Ross being freed

43. Impending flourishing of agorist markets

44. SSN breach by US government, huge blow to privacy

45. Expulsion of Worldcoin from Germany and other countries.

46. Aleo mainnet

47. The Lavender story of how the Israeli forces use an AI targeting system to automatically generate kill lists in Gaza

48. Signal usernames

Events

1. Monerokon

2. Monerotopia

3. Lunarpunk festival