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Privacy Guides is a socially motivated website that provides information for protecting your data security and privacy.

Our mission is to inform the public about the value of digital privacy, and global government initiatives which aim to monitor your online activity. We are a non-profit collective operated entirely by volunteer team members and contributors. Our website is free of advertisements and not affiliated with any of the listed providers.

Homepage: https://www.privacyguides.org
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Forum: https://discuss.privacyguides.net

Last Notes

2024-09-08 18:45:52

📝 Latest from @npub14vu…9wlz on the blog: Proton Wallet Review
"Proton, the Swiss creators of privacy-focused products like Proton Mail and ProtonVPN, recently released the latest product in their ever-growing lineup: Proton Wallet..."
Continue reading: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2024/09/08/proton-wallet-review/

2024-07-14 17:45:21

📝 New from our blog: "No shady privacy policies or back doors for advertisers" proclaims the Firefox homepage, but that's no longer true in Firefox 128.
Less than a month after acquiring the AdTech company Anonym, Mozilla has added special software co-authored by Meta and built for the advertising industry directly to the latest release of Firefox, in an experimental trial you have to opt out of manually. This "Privacy-Preserving Attribution" (PPA) API adds another tool to the arsenal of tracking features that advertisers can use, which is thwarted by traditional content blocking extensions…
https://blog.privacyguides.org/2024/07/14/mozilla-disappoints-us-yet-again-2/
#privacy #firefox #mozilla #ppa

2024-07-03 14:52:23

Today Proton Drive introduces end-to-end encrypted document editing and collaboration. We’re comparing it with the other document editors we’ve previously reviewed now :)
Discussion: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/introducing-docs-in-proton-drive-collaborative-document-editing/19246
Blog: https://proton.me/blog/docs-proton-drive
#Proton #ProtonDrive #Privacy

2024-06-21 13:42:59

Our community's compiling a list of all the best #privacy resources to follow, is your favorite (besides Privacy Guides, of course) on the list?
https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/looking-for-privacy-feeds-podcasts-etc-recommendations/15752

2024-06-20 13:09:56

🎉 EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control: "Lack of majority thanks to severe pushback puts the proposal on hold."
Discussion: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/eu-council-has-withdrawn-the-vote-on-chat-control/19021
Source: https://stackdiary.com/eu-council-has-withdrawn-the-vote-on-chat-control/ – Original Reporting (German): https://netzpolitik.org/2024/etappensieg-belgien-scheitert-mit-abstimmung-zur-chatkontrolle/
#ChatControl #EU #Privacy

2024-06-19 09:05:11

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If you're looking to take action, you can learn more here: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/council-to-greenlight-chat-control-take-action-now/
If you want to learn more about Chat Control:
- Signal's statement: https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/upload-moderation.pdf
- Tuta's joint open letter: https://tuta.com/blog/joint-statement-eu-compromise-csam-scanning

2024-06-19 09:03:42

Chat Control — the EU's latest plan to implement mass surveillance on the internet — is closer than ever to being passed. The vote's been pushed to Thursday, but we need to keep up the pressure: Contact your government ASAP and take action!
Discussion: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/eu-proposal-for-chat-control-for-fighting-csam/11665/23
#ChatControl #StopChatControl #Privacy #EU

2024-06-18 15:31:20

#OpenAI can never be trusted — Snowden: "There is only one reason for appointing an [NSA] Director to your board."
OpenAI is positioning themselves to be in the perfect place to implement the next generation of mass #surveillance on the internet at scale. Countless companies including giants like #Apple and of course #Microsoft are happily handing your data to OpenAI for free.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/snowden-openai-calculated-betrayal

2024-06-17 12:33:11

🚨 Breaking: Proton announces plans to transition to a non-profit business structure, on the 10th anniversary of their original crowdfunding campaign.
Discussion: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/proton-is-transitioning-towards-a-non-profit-structure/18940
#proton #protonmail #nonprofit

2024-06-17 11:21:24

Mozilla acquires Anonym, a "Privacy-Preserving Digital Advertising" company.
Why any tracking is necessary for advertising in the first place is beyond me!
Discussion: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/mozilla-acquires-anonym-raising-the-bar-for-privacy-preserving-digital-advertising/18936
#mozilla #privacy #advertising

2024-06-01 00:31:22

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hence we recommend it:
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/multi-factor-authentication/#aegis-authenticator-android

2024-05-31 01:16:03

PSA: If you're still using #Raivo 2FA on iOS **back up your data immediately and do not update to the latest version**.
As we suspected would happen when they were acquired last year, the new owners of the app have pivoted to a forced subscription model and **updating to the new version will delete all your TOTP codes!** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/psa-export-your-keys-before-updating-raivo-otp-to-the-latest-1-6-version/18602
[We recommend](https://www.privacyguides.org/en/multi-factor-authentication/ ) switching to [Ente Auth](https://ente.io/auth/ ), which can be used completely locally or with @npub1m9e…e9jl's end-to-end encrypted cloud backups.
#TOTP #RaivoOTP #PSA #Ente #EnteAuth