Good Monday, friends of privacy!

First of all, thank you to everyone who we could meet at Amsterdam at our meetup! You, people, are the best. Other than amazing events, this week was strong in anti-Flock pushes, wallet's updates and much more. We picked the best news for you.

And for tool of the week, take a look at Concorde by Shutter Network - an open-source framework that lets organizations operate a shared AI agent under collective control rather than placing it in the hands of one individual.

Tool of the week

• Check out Shutter Network's Concorde

Insights

• Shutter Network releases Concorde, an open-source framework for collectively controlled AI agents
• Ambire reviews its major wallet-development milestones from the first half of 2026
• Cashu shares its latest development for private Bitcoin ecash
• Anon unveils its latest update for private on-chain activity
• Retailers face growing opposition over their use of Flock’s license-plate surveillance

Knowledge

• UN human-rights chief warns that powerful AI could pose an existential threat
• Brave tests show lower CPU and memory usage than Chrome, Edge and Firefox
• Vitalik Buterin predicts advanced cryptography could become dramatically cheaper
• Mullvad closes its public encrypted DNS servers and redirects support to Quad9
• Texas police used AI to document their use of Flock in the search for a woman who had an abortion

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 11 - Web3PrivacyNow meetup -Rome - Rome, Italy
• Sep 11-13 - ETHRome 2026 - Rome, Italy
• 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