Privacy’s 2022: There were significant developments concerning privacy during the third quarter of 2022. In the U.S., federal privacy law in the form of the American Data Privacy and Protection Act began to take shape, although there is still much work to be done. Internationally, different countries also saw progress in terms of privacy laws, such as Indonesia with its data protection law and Ireland with the expansion of its Data Protection Commission. The European Union also committed to double down on artificial intelligence legislation through the AI Liability Directive, a complement to the AI Act that seeks to target high-risk uses of AI. In cryptocurrency, the privacy coin economy suffered a massive loss amid the crypto winter, dropping from $11.7 billion at the beginning of 2022 to $5.22 billion by year-end. Nonetheless, significant steps were taken to forward research on zero-knowledge technology, with one of the most notable being the possible application of zero-knowledge proofs to scale Bitcoin and supplement its cryptographic algorithm.