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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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Meta Smart Glasses Sending Sensitive Recordings to Workers to Annotate
— According to a report by SVD, Meta’s Ray-Ban AI Smart Glasses have been sending sensitive recordings of people, including “bank details, sex and naked people,” to outsourced companies to review and annotate.
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“ClawJacked” Vulnerability Allows Malicious Websites to Take Control of OpenClaw
— Oasis Security discovered a vulnerability in the popular OpenClaw agentic AI software that allows websites to silently bruteforce access to a locally running instance and take it over.
How We're Empowering Privacy Activists and Advocacy Groups
We've put together a short video summarizing our newly launched section for pro-privacy advocacy and explaining why we created it.
Smartphone Security Course (Lesson 2: Intermediate)
In our intermediate lesson we'll cover private alternatives to popular applications that you can utilize. We'll also talk about how to obtain your apps in a privacy respecting way from alternative sources.
Latest Privacy & Security Headlines
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Spyware Maker Sentenced to Prison
The founder, Tal Dilian, and three other executives of Intellexa, a collective of spyware makers responsible for what was dubbed “Greek Watergate” have been sentenced to eight years in prison.
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Samsung Forced to Halt Data Collection in TVs in Texas Without “Express Consent”
Attorney General of Texas Ken Paxton secured an agreement with Samsung that “will ensure Samsung no longer collects Automated Content Recognition (“ACR”) data without consumers being fully informed and consenting prior to any information being collected.”
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Threat Intelligence “Provenance” Could be the Solution to a Fractured Global Cybersecurity Landscape
Geopolitical tensions threaten cybersecurity research and sharing between countries, but research from Georgia Tech demonstrates a possible system of auditable provenance data to validate how threat intelligence was produced instead of trusting who produced it.
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Android 17 Beta Introduces the Contact Picker and the Local Network Permission
Android 17 Beta 2 released, bringing with it the rumored Contacts Picker for selecting individual contacts and the Local Network Access permission for preventing apps from seeing other devices on your local network.
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.
Why Incognito Mode is a Lie.
Incognito Mode or Private Browsing mode is a feature that every browser has, but what if that was a lie and your activity in private mode could still be tracked?
Smartphone Security Course (Lesson 1: Beginners)
In this three-part course, we walk users through the steps they can take to make their phones as private and secure as possible.
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?
Bad Internet Bills: KOSA, The SCREEN Act, and Repealing Section 230
Nate Bartram sat down with technology journalist Taylor Lorenz to decipher the slate of bills being fast-tracked through Congress which threaten free speech, privacy, and your right to freely access information on the internet.
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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 launches a new Activism section
— Privacy Guides launched a new Activism section on Tuesday, March 3, to support the digital rights community in its privacy advocacy and activism effort, both for individuals and organizations.
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A Message Regarding ICE in Minnesota and the USA from Privacy Guides' Program Director Jonah Aragon
— Privacy Guides stands alongside everyone protesting in support of the protection of our neighbors and for American rights, which is something that all Americans should support.