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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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Neobank Bunq Shares Customers’ Investments to Their Contacts Without Permission
— Bunq, a Dutch neobank that’s been growing in popularity in recent years, has started sharing users’ investments with others on their contacts list, according to RTL.
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Data Breach Roundup (Dec 12 – Dec 18, 2025)
— Data breaches at Hama Film, Home Depot, 700Credit, PornHub, Askul, SoundCloud, University of Sydney, plus an update on last week's Coupang data breach.
What can we do about the RAM and SSD shortage?
AI data centers have caused an unprecedented shortage of DRAM and NAND, increasing prices on everything from computers to smartphones. If you want to purchase a device without breaking the bank, here is what you can do so securely.
Bad Internet Bills: KOSA, The SCREEN Act, and Repealing Section 230
Nate Bartram sat down with technology journalist Taylor Lorenz to decipher the slate of bills being fast-tracked through Congress which threaten free speech, privacy, and your right to freely access information on the internet.
Latest Privacy & Security Headlines
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Google Sunsets "Dark Web Report" Tool
This week, Google announced they would be shutting down their "Dark Web Report" tool, stating "it didn't provide helpful next steps." This was a separate offering from Google's "Results About You" service sometimes recommended to help stop data brokers leaking your info.
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Data Breach Roundup (12/5/25–12/11/25)
Data breaches galore this week from Petco, AI startups, healthcare providers, and other organizations.
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Brave adds experimental agentic AI browsing feature
Brave Nightly will include an opt-in agentic AI browsing mode that hosts additional safeguards for your personal data. But is it actually safe?
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The FIDO Alliance Announces Standardized Digital Wallets
The FIDO alliance, in charge of authentication standards such as the FIDO2 standard widely used in hardware keys, has announced a new digital credentials initiative aimed at standardizing and streamlining the adoption of “verifiable digital credentials and identity wallets.”
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.
Email Security: Where We Are and What the Future Holds
Email is ubiquitous. If you want to function in modern society, you pretty much have to have an email address, but what was originally just a simple protocol to send messages between machines has morphed beyond what it was originally intended for.
Data Brokers Know Everything About You (Interview with Yael Grauer)
Data brokerage is a billion-dollar industry built on selling your personal information without your knowledge or consent. This is what you need to know to keep your information protected.
Real-Name Policies: The War Against Pseudonymity
Real-name policies have existed for over a decade, but these problems have become exponentially harmful in today's world. It's time to fight back against this unsafe and discriminatory privacy-invasive practice.
Bits of Freedom & Privacy Guides Partnering to Enhance FixJePrivacy.nl
We are excited to start a collaboration with Bits of Freedom to help maintain Fix je Privacy, a Dutch-language website providing practical tips to improve your online safety.
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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 merch shop with new designs for in-person advocacy
— The Privacy Guides non-profit launched a new web store on Black Friday featuring quality product designs for people who want to advocate for digital rights and Privacy Guides' resources within their local communities.
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Privacy Guides Reveals Full-Time Educational Video Team Hire
— Privacy Guides, an impartial, non-profit organization focused on building a strong privacy & digital rights advocacy community, announced today that Nate Bartram would join its video production team as the latest full-time staff contributor.