Good Monday, friends of privacy!

Another week is in the books, with many new updates and public pushes as well as digital rights progress. Be it implementation of privacy features in Big Tech hardware or new projects and tools in web3 realm, there is something for everyone.

If you are in Cannes right now, enjoy the event. And if you have a time, take a look at new Ethereum rollup, Ethereum Economic Zone, our Tool of The week.

Made by people from Gnosis and ZiskVM and co-founded by Ethereum Foundation, Ethereum Economic Zone is framework built around one principle: rollups that extend Ethereum, not branch away from it.

Tool of the week

• Ethereum Economic Zone - framework for L2s to work better with each other

Insights

• Introduction to Ethereum Economic Zone
• Interesting overview of projets running on Palliora
• European Commmission confirms data breack after an attack
• Sooraj from Brave compares Framework and MacBook Neo
• ConSensys' Linea Shifts zkEVM Proving from EVM to RISC-V

Knowledge

• Veilnyx's Rethinking privacy and compliance
• Soulbound Ethereum: Thinkpiece from Matt Liston asking who will do things Ethereum Foundation says they won't
• ISPs Don't Have To Be Copyright Enforcers
• Signal’s Creator Is Helping Encrypt Meta AI
• Human Passport talking about their Covenant and Universal Personhood

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

• AI Privacy and Sovereignty talk by Logos
• "Privacy is not protection. It's a weapon" interview with Amir Taaki
• Check out the W3PN Academy Shorts
• Take our new Academy Course - ZK for not tech, done in collaboration with Oskarth
• Web3 Privacy Now courses in our Academy

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

(new/changes in bold)

• Mar 30 - Apr 10 - Farcaster Agentic Bootcamp
• Mar 30 - Apr 2 - EthCC Cannes, France
• Apr 4 - Web3Privacy Now Mumbai MeetUp Mumbai, India
• Apr 15–16 - Paris Blockchain Week - Paris, France
• May 5-8 - RightsCon Zambia
• May 8-10 - ETHPrague Prague, Czech Republic
• May 13-14 - ETHCluj Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• May 21 -22 - ETHMilan 2026 Milan, Italy
• Jun 16-17 - Dapcon 26 Berlin, Germany
• Jun 18-19 - Web3 Summit Berlin, Germany
• Jul 8-12 - DWebCamp Berlin, Germany
• Nov 2 - Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress #3 Mumbai, India