German Police Are Using Linked Devices to Read Messages from Apps Like Signal Without Cracking the Encryption

Sep 30 — A document by Netzpolitik reveals that German police are sneakily abusing the linked devices feature in messengers to access the messages of suspects using encrypted messengers like Signal without needing to crack the encryption.

Highly Sensitive Data of 3 Million in the People in the Pentagon's System Accessed by "Unauthorized Users"

Sep 29 — The Pentagon sent out letters to affected individuals explaining that their Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) was accessed by "unauthorized users," exposing the highly sensitive personal data of millions of military personnel.

New Attack Can Track You Across Operating Systems Without Elevated Privileges

Researchers at the Graz University of Technology Austria demonstrated a new attack that can track you via file change events "on all systems," allowing for various data leaks.

Meta Promises to Upgrade Ray Ban Smart Glasses with "Private Processing"

Meta announced in a blog post that its notorious smart glasses will soon use its Private Processing to protect your data as it's being processed in the cloud.

New Technique Discovered for Breaking RSA Faster Than Ever Before

Researchers have demonstrated a way to break RSA encryption faster than before, allowing them to break (admittedly already deprecated) 1024-bit RSA in just five months on classical computers in an academic CPU cluster.

Critical Tor Vulnerabilities Patched Across All Tor Components From the "LLM Report Firehose"

Tor has released updates for "all components" of Tor that include severe vulnerabilities and bugs from the "LLM report firehose" and recommends "upgrading as soon as possible."

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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 30 — 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.