Hello, friends! After some break we are finally back with our newsletter. We want to say one thing: October will be a huge month for privacy with many product announcements, partnerships, unstoppable events. Enjoy the show:

Insights

• Controversy about mandatory Digital ID in UK as a strike into personal privacy
• Tails 7.0 brings faster loading and bigger sizes of images
• Hackers have exploited multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco ASA, installing malware and stealing data
• Meta keeps censoring Abortion advocates on socials
• Brave starts new tool "Ask-Brave" that combines AI chatbot and search
• Study finds that AI chatbots can lie despite safety tools

Knowledge

• Major update for ProtonMail brings offline mode and new layout
• An app for doxxing critics of Charlie Kirk exposed its users
• Using MCP can make AI chatbots more useful but can put your privacy in danger
• Reacting to community pushback, NordVPN wont shutdown meshnet
• Autonomous enterprises and state channels might help Web3 according to Alexis Sirka of Yellow Network
• DeepSeek's new model reduces API costs
• More than half of cyber attacks on UK schools are done by its students

Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web

• Join p2pfoundation's Michael Bauwens Academy Cohort courses
• Learn more about Kids in Privacy on Women in Web3Privacy X.com Space
• What is mass-surveillance:

Inspiration: Going Off(Line) an offering of IRL events

(new/changes in bold)

• Oct 3-5 - DarkPrague 2025
• Oct 17-19 - ETHRome Rome
• Oct 27-29 - TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
• Oct 28 - Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute Annual Conference
• Nov 16 - Web3Privacy Now Congress II Buenos Aires