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.

European Union — Chat Control Initiative

Fight Chat Control

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

https://fightchatcontrol.eu

Nominated for advancing legislation that would mandate client-side scanning and potentially weaken end-to-end encryption across messaging services + CBDC

Danish Government
for bringing chat control back to life with 2.0

France (Surveillance Legislation)
Nominated for expanding or proposing national surveillance measures impacting digital privacy.

UK Online Safety Act
Nominated for provisions critics argue could undermine encrypted communication and digital privacy + ID system + Age Verification

US Government — Surveillance Expansion (DHS / ICE)
Nominated for expanding digital surveillance programs, monitoring systems, and data collection initiatives like scanning "tourists social media".

Arkham Intelligence
Nominated for building large-scale blockchain deanonymization tools designed to link crypto addresses to real-world identities.

Chainalysis
Nominated for providing blockchain surveillance analytics and transaction tracing services to governments and law enforcement agencies.

Coinbase

Nominated for compliance-driven identity tracking, transaction monitoring, and cooperation with regulatory surveillance frameworks.

Coupang - for Massive Data Breaches

Ledger

Nominated due to historical customer data exposure incidents and concerns over privacy guarantees.

Mozilla (Privacy Policy Changes)
Nominated following privacy policy updates that some users viewed as expanding data collection or telemetry practices.

OpenAI / Mixpanel
Nominated over concerns regarding data collection, telemetry, and governance of user interaction data in AI systems.

Palantir
- for building large-scale government surveillance and intelligence data systems.

Qubic
Nominated for actions perceived as hostile toward privacy-focused ecosystems, particularly in relation to Monero.

Elon Musk
Nominated for platform and policy decisions on X (formerly Twitter) perceived as weakening user privacy protections.

Larry Ellison
Nominated for public statements advocating expansive data aggregation and AI-driven surveillance systems intended to monitor populations.

Ylva Johansson
Nominated for her role in advocating EU-level proposals related to mandatory content scanning and encryption backdoors.

And those, who chanted that "Surveillance will ensure people are on their best behaviour", - Naomi Brockwell.

And for a change, here is a positive doxxer:

Tay

for exposing malicious actors and protecting Ethereum security.

This year’s nominations reflect concerns across multiple layers of the privacy stack:

• Legislative attempts to mandate scanning or weaken encryption

• Blockchain deanonymization infrastructure

• Expanding regulatory surveillance

• AI telemetry and data governance

• Compliance-driven identity monitoring

The Doxxer of the Year category exists to surface accountability conversations in the privacy ecosystem — not to assign legal judgment, but to reflect community sentiment.

Privacy is infrastructure.
And infrastructure requires accountability.

— Web3Privacy Now

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.

European Union — Chat Control Initiative

Fight Chat Control

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

https://fightchatcontrol.eu

Nominated for advancing legislation that would mandate client-side scanning and potentially weaken end-to-end encryption across messaging services + CBDC

Danish Government
for bringing chat control back to life with 2.0

France (Surveillance Legislation)
Nominated for expanding or proposing national surveillance measures impacting digital privacy.

UK Online Safety Act
Nominated for provisions critics argue could undermine encrypted communication and digital privacy + ID system + Age Verification

US Government — Surveillance Expansion (DHS / ICE)
Nominated for expanding digital surveillance programs, monitoring systems, and data collection initiatives like scanning "tourists social media".

Arkham Intelligence
Nominated for building large-scale blockchain deanonymization tools designed to link crypto addresses to real-world identities.

Chainalysis
Nominated for providing blockchain surveillance analytics and transaction tracing services to governments and law enforcement agencies.

Coinbase

Nominated for compliance-driven identity tracking, transaction monitoring, and cooperation with regulatory surveillance frameworks.

Coupang - for Massive Data Breaches

Ledger

Nominated due to historical customer data exposure incidents and concerns over privacy guarantees.

Mozilla (Privacy Policy Changes)
Nominated following privacy policy updates that some users viewed as expanding data collection or telemetry practices.

OpenAI / Mixpanel
Nominated over concerns regarding data collection, telemetry, and governance of user interaction data in AI systems.

Palantir
- for building large-scale government surveillance and intelligence data systems.

Qubic
Nominated for actions perceived as hostile toward privacy-focused ecosystems, particularly in relation to Monero.

Elon Musk
Nominated for platform and policy decisions on X (formerly Twitter) perceived as weakening user privacy protections.

Larry Ellison
Nominated for public statements advocating expansive data aggregation and AI-driven surveillance systems intended to monitor populations.

Ylva Johansson
Nominated for her role in advocating EU-level proposals related to mandatory content scanning and encryption backdoors.

And those, who chanted that "Surveillance will ensure people are on their best behaviour", - Naomi Brockwell.

And for a change, here is a positive doxxer:

Tay

for exposing malicious actors and protecting Ethereum security.

This year’s nominations reflect concerns across multiple layers of the privacy stack:

• Legislative attempts to mandate scanning or weaken encryption

• Blockchain deanonymization infrastructure

• Expanding regulatory surveillance

• AI telemetry and data governance

• Compliance-driven identity monitoring

The Doxxer of the Year category exists to surface accountability conversations in the privacy ecosystem — not to assign legal judgment, but to reflect community sentiment.

Privacy is infrastructure.
And infrastructure requires accountability.

— Web3Privacy Now