Good Monday, people of web3! Gitcoin Privacy Round, that we help to curate btw, has officially ended and there are great results! Take a look at what projects and tools are making biggest rounds in privacy (pun intended) and enjoy today's newsletter. 

• Winner of Gitcoin Privacy round: Dev3Pack and their Privacy bootcamp

• See the results of Gitcoin Privacy Round:

• European Union Council withdraws their plan for Chat Control again, after public pushback

• Proton launches Data Breach Observatory to track unreported leaks from darkweb

• WORM's private-proof-of-burn zkSNARK circuits fully open-source:

• Windows' vulnerabilities under active exploitation

• Long read on UK's data tracking of kids from the day they are born

• Russia blocks people from making new accounts on WhattsApp and Telegram

• Ex-L3Harris executive admits to selling trade secrets to Russian firm

• Tanzanian governemnt imposed internet shutdown during voting

• Energy prices rising up due to usage of AI

• Take our own Web3 Privacy Now courses through our Academy

• Stop confusing privacy, anonymity and security

• "Let's sue the government"| EFF's Lisa Femia duscussion about ideological social media surveillance**

• EFFecting Change: This Title Was Written by a Human

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• Nov 7-8 - SeaGL conference Seattle

• Nov 16 - Web3Privacy Now Congress II Buenos Aires

• Nov 18 - DevconnectHER | Career Lab & Job Fair Buenos Aires

• Nov 21 - Ethereum Privacy Stack

• Dec 27-30 - 39th Chaos Communication Congress Hamburg

• Mar 6-7 2026 - Logos Network's Parallel Society Lisabon