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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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Data Breach Disrupts Emergency Alert Systems
— A cyberattack forced Crisis24 to decommission parts of CodeRED, an emergency notification system used widely across the US by governments, police, and fire agencies.
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Trail of Bits Adds Constant Time Support to LLVM, Bolstering Encryption Security
— Today, Trail of Bits announced they’ve added constant-time coding support for LLVM, “providing developers with compiler-level guarantees that their cryptographic implementations remain secure against branching-related timing attacks.”
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.
Latest Privacy & Security Headlines
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Dartmouth College Confirms Data Breach
Dartmouth, a private Ivy League university in New England, has disclosed a data breach.
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Malware Delivered Through Blender Downloads on Third-Party Sites
Malicious Blender files uploaded to third-party download sites have turned out to contain infostealer malware.
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U.S. National Parks Will Soon Require Proof of Residency or Charge Higher Rates
Today, the United States Department of the Interior announced changes to how national parks are accessed beginning Jan. 1, 2026. The new pricing for an annual pass will be over 3 times higher for non-residents, while remaining the same for residents.
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State-sponsored spyware campaign targeting Signal and WhatsApp, CISA warns
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) issued an alert on Monday warning of a state-sponsored spyware campaign targeting Signal and WhatsApp
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.
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.
What is Differential Privacy?
Differential privacy is a mathematically rigorous framework for adding a controlled amount of noise to a dataset so that no individual can be reidentified. Learn how this technology is being implemented to protect you.
The Threat That Makes Encryption Useless
Do quantum computers have the ability to break our encryption, and are they actually a threat to the privacy of our communications? In this video, we dig into the details and separate fact from Silicon Valley hype!
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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 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.