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exactDate: 2025-12-01
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  paragraph: https://paragraph.com/@web3privacy/week-in-the-privacy-news-46
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Good Monday, friends of privacy!

Another intense week in the books. We are still talking and buzzing about the memories and stories from ECC2 as well as Ethereum Privacy Stack, trying to navigate everything. If you have anything to share, please do so. It means so much.
Other than that, new week, another newsletter. So take yourself your preferred hot beverage or whatever you fancy right now, here is what we picekd:

### New tool of the week
- [Behold - OpenAC: Open Design for Transparent and Lightweight Anonymous Credentials](https://github.com/privacy-ethereum/zkID/blob/main/paper/zkID.pdf)
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### Insights
- [Learn more about OpenAC in words by it's authors at PSE](https://x.com/PrivacyEthereum/status/1994725376526819355)
- [Defend Open Collaboration: Have Your Say on Proposed US Patent Rules](https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/defend-open-collaboration-have-your-say-on-proposed-us-patent-rules)
- [Matrix will shut down it's Slack bridge by January 2026](https://cyberinsider.com/matrix-org-to-retire-slack-bridge-by-january-citing-maintenance-burden/)
- [Children's privacy is as much important as anybody else's](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/privacy-children-too)
- [GrapheneOS exits France...](https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1993035936800584103)
- [...and here is what it can mean for encryption](https://proton.me/blog/grapheneos-france)
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### Knowledge
- [Wired's basic guide to OPSEC for teens](https://www.wired.com/story/digital-opsec-for-teens/)
- [Explanation of email spoofing by Proton](https://proton.me/blog/what-is-email-spoofing)
- [Vitalik Buterin donated 128ETH to both Session and SimpleX](https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1993803663026860125)
- [Session now launches Protocol v2](https://x.com/session_app/status/1995283442855203175)
- [Tega Brain's Slop Evader tries to let you search websites without AI](https://www.404media.co/slop-evader-browser-extension-pre-generative-ai-search-filter/)

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### Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web
- [Podcast about encrypted Ethereum, FHE & Living Forever with Zama Co-Founder Rand Hindi](https://www.bankless.com/podcast/the-holy-grail-of-crypto-privacy)
- [Chat on the state of decentralised tech with Václav Pavlín from Logos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a8P9sRNbvI)
- [Take our own Web3 Privacy Now courses through our Academy](https://academy.web3privacy.info/)
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### Inspiration: Going Off(Line) an offering of IRL events 
*(new/changes in **bold**)*
* Dec 2 - [We Will Rise Again](https://www.eff.org/event/we-will-rise-again) San Francisco
* Dec 8 - [WEB3SEC 2025: Workshop Encouraging Building Better Blockchain Security 2025](https://web3sec.ws/) Honolulu
* Dec 27-30 - [39th Chaos Communication Congress](https://events.ccc.de/en/2025/09/28/39c3-call-for-participation/) Hamburg
* Jan 31 - Feb 1 - [FOSDEM 2026](https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/) Brussels
* Mar 6-7 2026 - [Logos Network's Parallel Society](https://x.com/Logos_network/status/1984952918454247534) Lisabon
* May 5-8 2026 - [RightsCon](https://www.rightscon.org/registration/) Zambia
* May 8-10 2026 - [ETHPrague](https://ethprague.com/) Prague