Intel’s Fully Homomorphic Encryption Chip Could Revolutionize Privacy

Mar 19 — Intel’s hardware-accelerated Fully-Homomorphic Encryption chip, Heracles, could bring fully E2EE server-side processing into viability.

UK Corporate Registry Exposes Personal Information of Employees

Mar 19 — The UK’s Companies House alerted the public of a security issue that allowed other users to access “dates of birth, residential addresses and company email addresses.”

Instagram Ending E2EE Support

Instagram has notified its users that it will no longer support E2EE after May 8, 2026, according to the support page for the feature.

AI Agents Beginning to Help Attackers Accelerate Stealing Your Data

While generation of malicious code, media, and phishing material are already making heavy use of AI, threat actors are “experimenting” with AI agents to automate decision making.

Data Breach Roundup (Feb 27 – Mar 5, 2026)

A lighter than normal week, but still we saw LexisNexis, a global paint maker, and more get hit, plus an update to the UH Cancer Center's breach.

Coruna Malware Targeting iOS Spotted by Google Threat Intelligence

Google Threat Intelligence Group has identified a “powerful exploit kit” targeting iPhones running iOS 13.0 to 17.2.1 used by a surveillance company and crypto-stealing sites.

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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).

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.

Privacy Guides launches a new Activism section

Mar 03 — 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.

A Message Regarding ICE in Minnesota and the USA from Privacy Guides' Program Director Jonah Aragon

Jan 31 — 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.