Week in the Privacy News

Lead	Links	Workgroup
@Tree	• Web: news.web3privacy.info • newsletter: paragraph.xyz/@privacynews	GitHub, Matrix

Weekly newsletter with round-up of the most important news happening around privacy in Web3.

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Topics

privacy protocols news
research and statistics
interviews and panel discussions
regulatory news
educational and inspiring videos
security news incl. exploits
events (IRL, online…)
social layer news
news regarding human freedoms
interesting talks on social media

Web frontend

news.web3privacy.info (source code)

We use Paragraph as a platform for newsletter subscription and distribution:

paragraph.xyz/@web3privacy

How to contribute?

Manually add a news item via PR to the @web3privacy/news repository
Send a suggestion to our Matrix chat channel: #w3p-news:gwei.cz

Guidelines

Each issue of Week in the Privacy consists of the following parts:

News items - divided into categories
Upcoming events

News items

* <text> [(<src>)]

Keep it as brief and informative as possible
Each news item must contain a link directly in the text
There should only be one link in the text, rarely more
The main link should be made up of words that capture the essence of the news item
Use a Twitter/X handle in a message if it’s about someone specific - e.g. Horswap: ...., by @MicahZoltu (src)

Usually each message has 1-2 links:

main link - points to a specific project, report, message, etc.
source link (optional) - points to the source of this news like article, tweet etc.

For links to pages to article with a paywall, its a good idea to use e.g. web.archive.org, through which the whole articles are available.

Examples of news item

Good example	Bad example
✅ Wired: experience with Signal usernames	❌ Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
✅ Memetic warfare: notes from the W3PN Summit meme talk by @lunar_mining	❌ lunar_mining from DarkFi shared txt / img / meme version of her speech at Web3Privacy Summit Prague 2023
✅ EFF: Unregulated, Exploitative, and on the Rise report on electronic monitoring from Vera Institute	❌ Unregulated, Exploitative, and on the Rise: Vera Institute’s Report on Electronic Monitoring
✅ Aleo users alarmed by leaked KYC documents	❌ Privacy-focused Aleo users concerned after KYC documents leak
✅ Russia arrested a woman for a $51 donation to Ukraine charity, facing up to 20 years in prison	❌ Arrested in Russia a US-Russian dual citizen faces up to 20 years for donating $51 to Ukraine)

Upcoming events

This section lists future privacy-related events.

Event item

* <date>, <event-name> [(<city>)] [type-of-event]

city - not needed if it is clear from the event name (eq. ETHBerlin - Berlin)
date - can be exact date or just a month
if the event has been edited or added, then whole line should be in bold

For example:

* May 24-26, [ETHBerlin](https://ethberlin.org/) hackathon

Example of Upcoming events

### Upcoming events
*(new/changes in **bold**)*

* May 24-26, [ETHBerlin](https://ethberlin.org/) hackathon
* Oct, [Web3Privacy Now Summit](https://web3privacy.info/events/) (Brno) conference
* **Oct, [ETHBrno](https://ethbrno.cz/) hackathon**

Weekly frequency

The news is divided to calendar weeks. At the end of each week the news is taken, polished and published in the form of a newsletter.

Weekly checklist

collect all suggestions from the input funnels and create a records from them
check all items, add categories and other mandatory parameters

Trial Period

A 4-week trial period has been set to start.

Period: Feb 5 - Mar 3, 2024 (4 weeks)

Week	Start - End	Curator
2024-06	Feb 5 - 11	Tree
2024-07	Feb 12 - 18	Mykola
2024-08	Feb 19 - 25	PG
2024-09	Feb 26 - Mar 3	Coinmandeer

Repositories

Repository	Description
`@web3privacy/news`	News source data & web frontend

Sources (alternatives)

Privacy Matters (weekly) by Automata Network

Curators

Tree (lead)
Mykola
Coinmandeer
PG