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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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Amazon Cancels Ring Partnership with Flock
— Amazon has announced it has cancelled its previous plans to partner with Flock for its Community Requests feature.
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Data Breach Roundup (Feb 6 – Feb 12, 2026)
— The Netherlands' top ISP/telecom provider, the European Commission, a European identity verification service, and many more on this week's unexpected data breach victims.
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.
Latest Privacy & Security Headlines
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Microsoft Considers Scaling Back on Consumer-Facing AI
Microsoft has been aggressively pushing their unwanted AI products on anyone unfortunate enough to be in their ecosystem, but Recall, Copilot, and more may soon get reigned in.
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RAM Shortages Impact Raspberry Pi
Prices will be rising for the Raspberry Pi, a popular device for homelab users around the world.
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Firefox's "AI Killswitch" Coming February 24
Mozilla has recently promised an "AI Killswitch" for Firefox users who want nothing to do with their AI-first direction. We now know to expect in Firefox 148.
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Data Breach Roundup (Jan 30 – Feb 5, 2026)
Panera Bread, Coinbase, games, and photo booth are among this week's breaches.
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 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.
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.
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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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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.
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Privacy Guides launches merch shop with new designs for in-person advocacy
— The Privacy Guides non-profit launched a new web store on Black Friday featuring quality product designs for people who want to advocate for digital rights and Privacy Guides' resources within their local communities.