About the Lecturer and EUCI

In this course is created and presented by Vyara Savova, a legal researcher and policy strategist specialising in the intersection of blockchain, decentralisation, and data protection. Vyara is the Senior Policy Lead at the European Crypto Initiative (EUCI), a Brussels-based advocacy organisation focused on shaping fair and innovation-friendly crypto regulation in Europe. 

EUCI works with developers, researchers, regulators, and industry leaders to ensure that European crypto regulation enables rather than hinders decentralised innovation. Their contributions to MiCA, the AML framework, and now the GDPR debate have been widely recognised across both policy and tech circles.

This course is intended for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice.

Before You Begin: Help Shape the Future of Blockchain Privacy in Europe

We decided to do this course for a reason - the EDPB recently published Guidelines on blockchain and GDPR that represent a critical turning point and a real threat to the industry. They not only shape how public, decentralised infrastructure is viewed under EU law, but could also determine whether such systems even remain possible.

At EUCI, we are preparing a formal response to these Guidelines, and we need your help!

If you are a builder, researcher, or privacy advocate working on public blockchains, privacy, or decentralised identity, your insights matter. Join our Signal group to coordinate, send feedback and real-world examples of the privacy tools you’re building to: [email protected]

You can also co-sign EUCI’s response to the Guidelines to support permissionless innovation and practical privacy - please get in touch either through Signal or email to do so. 

Please contact us ASAP, as the deadline for responding is 9 June. Let’s make sure Europe protects both privacy and decentralisation!

One more last thing

Please be aware that the Privacy Academy works in Beta mode.

If you face any issues/problems/bugs - please let us know in the Academy chat in TG https://t.me/+TdhG7t184BtiOGQy

Also, if you want to save your progress, you will need to register or log in here

Happy learning,

with <3 Web3Privacy Now team.