Privacy Guides Reveals Full-Time Educational Video Team Hire

For Immediate Release — 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.

Bartram has been writing privacy advocacy resources since 2018 with his personal website The New Oil, and was formerly the host of the popular Surveillance Report podcast.

He will now be co-hosting future episodes of the This Week in Privacy livestreamed show, future scripted videos and shorts, and writing other content to assist the Privacy Guides news team.

His first major upcoming project will be a video course series on smartphone security, and contributing to regular updates to the news briefs section of Privacy Guides.

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"As we discussed on the latest episode of This Week in Privacy, we have so many plans for advancing privacy and making this community even more fantastic going in to 2026, and affording Nate the opportunity to commit to privacy advocacy full-time with us is really a dream come true."
— Jonah Aragon, Privacy Guides Program Director

His first appearance on Privacy Guides' video channels was on November 21, 2025 in Episode 28 of This Week in Privacy, a weekly livestream where he and the team discussed his role and future plans within the organization, as well as hosted a Q&A session with the community.

Program Director Jonah Aragon published an article to the Privacy Guides community forum with more details about this announcement.

Welcoming Nate Bartram to Privacy Guides
As many of you have now heard, we’re beyond thrilled to welcome Nate Bartram to the Privacy Guides team! As we discussed on the latest episode of This Week in Privacy, we have so many plans for advancing privacy and making this community even more fantastic going in to 2026, and affording Nate the opportunity to commit to privacy advocacy full-time with us is really a dream come true 🤩 Nate’s Role at Privacy Guides Today we shared a lot of details in Episode 28 of the livestream, b…
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Privacy Guides is an impartial 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. Its mission is to inform the public about the value of digital privacy, consumer tech rights, and about global government initiatives which aim to monitor your online activity. Privacy Guides resources are free of advertisements and not affiliated with any of the recommended providers.

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