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Privacy Guides is an impartial, non-profit organization that is focused on building a strong privacy advocacy community and delivering the best digital privacy and consumer technology rights advice on the internet.
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Support Privacy Guides on DAF Day 2026
— This October 8th, nonprofits of every size are asking their communities to make their DAF gifts count today, and we hope Privacy Guides is on your list.
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Hackers Impersonate Google and Other Large Services With Counterfeit TLS Certificates
— Attackers were able to compromise three top-level domain registries and mint TLS certificates for Google and other large organizations, allowing them to impersonate legitimate domains.
2026 Email Aliasing Tier List
Your email address is exposed! In this video we break down the best tools for protecting your email address and rank them from S-tier to F-tier. How did your favorite email aliasing tool stack up?
Is Louis Rossmann Right About Privacy.com?
Recently, digital rights activist and YouTuber Louis Rossmann revoked his endorsement of privacy.com. But we think this might be a problem bigger than one provider.
Latest Privacy & Security Headlines
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Apple Tightens "Full Disk Access" Permission on macOS in Light of AI Agent Security Concerns
Apple released a blog post on their Developer website announcing that they plan on tightening security around the "Full Disk Access" permission on macOS in light of AI agents misusing it and putting user data at risk.
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Data Breach Roundup (Sep 25 - Oct 1, 2026)
The US government has once again been breached, as well as a Japanese car-sharing app and a vibe-coding app platform.
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Leaked Video Shows That Police Can Bypass iPhones' Automatic Reboot Feature
According to 404 Media, a company that makes devices to hack phones claims they can bypass iOS's automatic reboot feature and allow police to more easily access data on iPhones.
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German Police Are Using Linked Devices to Read Messages from Messaging Apps Without Cracking the Encryption
A document by Netzpolitik reveals that German police are sneakily abusing the linked devices feature in messengers to access the messages of suspects using encrypted messengers like Signal without needing to crack the encryption.
This Week in Privacy
We're live on YouTube Fridays at 4 PM CST / 21:00 UTC to talk about privacy news from around the industry, updates from our own team, and anything else you want to discuss.
The iPhone the FBI Couldn’t Hack
In 2016, a locked iPhone 5C sparked a massive showdown between Apple and the FBI.
2026 Instant Messenger Tier List: Are You Secure?
We compared the top instant messengers (and the ones not quite there yet) to find out how they stack up. Let us know where your favorite choice fell, or if we missed anything in the comments!
Why Big Tech's Privacy Promises Are Lies
Melanie Ensign is the founder and CEO of Discernible and former communications lead for Facebook, Uber, AT&T, and DEF CON. She pulls back the curtain on how these large corporations operate, revealing why most internal privacy teams operate like "tax attorneys" rather than privacy advocates.
2026 Password Manager Tier List: Does Yours Stack Up?
We compared the top password managers (and the ones not quite there yet) to find out how they stack up.
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Trustworthy Reviews
As a non-profit project, Privacy Guides has strict journalistic standards and policies to ensure our recommendations are free of conflicts of interest, and we do not partner with providers or affiliate programs that could sway our reviews and recommendations.
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Community-Built
Privacy Guides has a dedicated community independently reviewing various privacy tools and services. Each of our recommendations comply with a strict set of criteria to ensure they provide the most value to most people, and provide the best balance of privacy, security, and convenience.
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Privacy: It's a human right
Much like the right to interracial marriage, woman's suffrage, freedom of speech, and many others, our right to privacy hasn't always been upheld. In several dictatorships, it still isn't. Generations before ours fought for our right to privacy. Privacy is a human right, inherent to all of us, that we are entitled to (without discrimination).
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Activism & Awareness
In the modern age of digital data exploitation, your privacy has never been more critical, yet many believe it is already a lost cause. It is not. Your privacy is up for grabs, and you need to care about it. Privacy is about power, and it is so important that this power ends up in the right hands.
Become a member
Support our mission to defend digital rights and spread the word about mass surveillance programs and other daily privacy invasions. You can help Privacy Guides researchers, activists, and maintainers create informative content, host private digital services, and protect privacy rights at a time when the world needs it most.
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Privacy Guides launches a new Activism section
— Privacy Guides launched a new Activism section on Tuesday, March 3, to support the digital rights community in its privacy advocacy and activism effort, both for individuals and organizations.
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A Message Regarding ICE in Minnesota and the USA from Privacy Guides' Program Director Jonah Aragon
— Privacy Guides stands alongside everyone protesting in support of the protection of our neighbors and for American rights, which is something that all Americans should support.