Good Monday, friends of privacy!

If you are living with internet connection, chance is you already know about many people's many attempts for control over data, privacy or human rights. And while it's important to keep on track of those and pay attention, we here feel it's equally important to cherish our accomplishments.

Whenever there is someone forcing down KYC or age restriction, let's celebrate another great project making it possible to exchange money without revealing anything that doesn't need to be revelead.

Peer lets you buy or sell crypto directly with another person without unneccesarrily revealing your data, basically feeling like sending money to your friend. And now it is also our Tool of the Week.

Tool of the week

• Peer, Permissionless and composable on/offramp protoco

Insights

• Guide on how to turn crypto currency into fiat without paper trial by Ben from Peer
• European Commission attempts to steal our search history
• Internet Archives says that 75% of 1980s video games tracked by the LGBTQ Video Game Archive are preserved
• Download Vanishing Culture from Internet Archive
• The Eurail Breach and the Digital ID Problem

Knowledge

• Learn more about Facial Recognition and the Expansion of Surveillance in football
• Epic Fury: The Dark Art of Defense Tech
• Harry Halpin from Nym on Fighting against Palantir
• Andy Yen from Proton warns against age verification
• Funding the Commons's Intelligence at the Frontier speaches are online

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

• Don't put files on a normal USB again! by Noemi Brockwell
• Privacy Is About Choice, Not Paranoia | interview with Seth For Privacy
• 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)

• Apr 28 - Global Onchain Summit - Dubai, UAE
• May 5-8 - RightsCon Zambia
• May 5–7 - Consensus 2026 - Austin, USA
• May 8-10 - ETHPrague Prague, Czech Republic
• May 13-14 - ETHCluj Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• May 21 -22 - ETHMilan 2026 Milan, Italy
• Jun 8–10 - ETHConf - New York, USA
• Jun 16-17 - Dapcon 26 Berlin, Germany
• Jun 18-19 - Web3 Summit Berlin, Germany
• Jul 8-12 - DWebCamp Berlin, Germany
• Aug 14–16 - HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) - New York, USA
• Nov 2 - Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress #3 Mumbai, India