Good Monday, friends of privacy!

This week we will cover everything from personal health-data sovereignty, AI in open-source development, resistance to digital surveillance, blockchain security failures and beyond.

And for tool of the week, Dark Bio's Ark - user-owned device that stores genomic and health data locally and runs analyses without exposing the underlying information to external services.

Tool of the week

• Check out Dark Bio's whitepaper

Insights

• Dark Bio introduces Ark I, a privacy tool designed to move beyond trust-based privacy policies
• Debian approves responsible use of generative AI in project contributions
• NEAR compares its production-ready infrastructure with Ethereum, Solana and Zcash
• Research explores how adversarial clothing can make people invisible to AI object detectors
• GrapheneOS raises concerns over Google removing memory-tagging support from the Pixel 11

Knowledge

• EU designates ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox as very large services under the Digital Services Act
• Zakura explains how security parameters shape private information retrieval
• Brave launches Email Aliases to hide users’ real email addresses
• US designates privacy-focused collective Autistici/Inventati as a global terrorist organization
• Cronos halts its blockchain following a $75 million exploit targeting Tectonic

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

• Get the book The Politics of Privacy: Autonomy and Power in the Digital Age
• Investigating Flock: America's Mass Surveillance Company
• Check the State of Decentralised Privacy report
• The Digital Independence They Don't Want You To Have by Naomi Brockwell
• Web3 Privacy Now courses in our Academy

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

(new/changes in bold)

• Sep 1 - Web3Privacy Now Meetup - Amsterdam - Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Sep 4-5 - Common S3nse - Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Sep 13–15 - ETHTaipei - Taipei, Taiwan
• Sep 15–16 - European Blockchain Convention - Barcelona, Spain
• Sep 18 - Web3Privacy Now Meetup - Tokyo - Tokyo, Japan
• Sep 19–27 - ETHTokyo - Tokyo, Japan
• Oct 27 - Web3Privacy Now x MozFest Meetup - Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain
• Oxt 28-30 - MozFest - Mozilla Festival - Barcelona, Spain
• Nov 2 - Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress #3 - Mumbai, India
• Nov 3-6 - Devcon Mumbai - Mumbai, India