Signal Founder Announces Private AI Alternative, Privacy Services Form a Privacy Alliance, Threema gets acquired (again) and more!
Our top stories this week:
- Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike has founded a new AI chatbot that claims to be the most private on the market.
- Windscribe, Kagi, Notesnook, Addy.io, and Ente have teamed up to create a privacy-focused alliance
- Threema has been acquired by a private equity firm
- Hints of encrypted RCS have been spotted in iOS 26.3 Beta
- Google's Gemini will power some of Apple's upcoming AI features
- A new highly advanced Linux malware and what it means going forward
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Updates from the Team
New Video: Why Privacy is Like Broccoli
Our latest video is now available to the public! In this video, we use the lessons we know about health and translate it into actionable advice on how to make your own privacy journey sustainable.
Why Privacy is Like Broccoli
Believe it or not, there’s a lot of parallels between being healthy and privacy. Both seem simple on the surface but get complicated fast. Yet, both are achievable. So what can the health journey teach us about the privacy journey?
Nate Bartram
News Articles
This week was busy in the Privacy Guides newsroom. We posted about Instagram's unexpected password reset emails sent to users, the Trail of Bits report about vulnerabilities in agentic browsers, a writeup about an alarming Bluetooth exploit, and of course our now-weekly Data Breach Round Up.