Privacy Guides

Privacy Guides is a comprehensive, non-profit resource for understanding and improving your online privacy.

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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.

Data Brokers Know Everything About You (Interview with Yael Grauer)

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.

NOYB files criminal complaint against Clearview, Police AI leads to false accusation, Apple plans ads for Maps, and more

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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.

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • 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.

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