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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.

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ianonymous3000, to Cybersecurity
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📚 Just completed the 'Basics of Personal Threat Modeling' course by @privacyguides 🛡️

Threat modeling is crucial because it helps identify and prioritize the most probable security and privacy risks. It enables focused resource allocation, tailored defenses, and heightened awareness.

Check it out: https://learn.privacyguides.org

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privacyguides,
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@ianonymous3000 glad you liked the course 🙌​

privacyguides, to random
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We switched to All Contributors to thank all those who've assisted with our project, not just those who contribute on GitHub. A huge thank you to everyone who's helped us get to this stage 🙌

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/about/contributors/

privacyguides, to ipfs
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Our website is now available via ! Try it out at /ipns/ipfs.privacyguides.org and let us know how it works for you! 😊

privacyguides, to random
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We self-host Umami for to gain an idea of how much traffic our site gets. It isn't the most accurate, but it helps. Your personal data is never saved or shared with a third-party - and no client-side JavaScript is required. You can see for yourself here:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/about/statistics/

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Encryption of data is the only way to control who can access it. If you are currently not using encryption software for your hard disk, emails or files, you should probably change that. Have a look at our page on it:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/encryption/

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Fed up with using your default mobile browser? Looking for something a little more privacy friendly? This might just be the page you've been searching for:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/mobile-browsers/

privacyguides, to random
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There is a lot of misinformation in the online privacy space. We created a page covering some common misconceptions to try and help:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/common-misconceptions/

privacyguides, to random
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Email is an insecure form of communication by default. It can be improved, but it shouldn't be used for everything. Our overview explains more:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/email-security/

privacyguides,
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@vibudanimsara it is on our list of recommended providers:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/email/#more-providers

liaizon, (edited ) to random
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fuck Open Collective Foundation is shutting down
https://daniel-lange.com/archives/186-Opencollective-shutting-down.html

hey @opencollective y'all need to be more transparent! We shouldn't be finding out about this thru random blog posts...

via @Foxboron

(Seems as if other parts of Open Collective are not shutting down, just the Foundation, still super confusing)

privacyguides, (edited )
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@liaizon our sysadmin just posted about this last night, very upsetting news 😢

https://mastodon.neat.computer/@jonah/112006775214180210

jonah, to random
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A few hours ago I received an email that the Open Collective Foundation is dissolving at the end of this year, with new donations no longer being accepted by mid March.

This is an absolute disaster for our work at @privacyguides, which has been fiscally hosted by OCF for many years now. Now we have to incorporate as an independent 501(c)(3) or find another fiscal host, move to another platform to accept donations, and deal with losing all our current regular donors. I predict a lot of lawyer time in my future.

What a headache 😭

privacyguides, (edited )
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If you would like to contribute to our discussions on where Privacy Guides goes from here, we invite you to this thread on our community forum:

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/the-legal-future-of-privacy-guides/17115

mshelton, to random
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Digisec nerds everywhere shortly after @signalapp announcements today

privacyguides,
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@mshelton I feel seen

privacyguides, (edited ) to Signal
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Username support in has officially released today, it may take a few weeks to be available to your client unless you are enrolled in the beta (in which case it is likely available to you now) 🎉

https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/

Discussion topic ➡️ https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/signal-usernames-are-available-today/16995

privacyguides, (edited )
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Edit: Since Signal's official docs say phone number privacy won't be "honored by everyone" until around June, I wouldn't rely on phone number privacy in Signal until then, despite this testing below!
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/6712070553754-Phone-Number-Privacy-and-Usernames

Also confirmed two things. If you are on 7.0.0, have a username, and hide your phone number:

  1. People on pre-7.0.0 clients cannot see your phone number in your profile
  2. People on pre-7.0.0 clients CAN still start a message with you via your new signal.me username link

...so if you are in the beta and/or have 7.0.0 today, you don't have to worry about your contacts being updated 😃

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/signal-usernames-are-available-today/16995/9

jonah, (edited ) to random
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Okay, I have too many of these stickers. If you want one now's your chance:

There's a small price to cover a stamp for shipping and the rest will be donated to @privacyguides, but if you really want these and can't pay, DM me for a 100% off code 😄

privacyguides,
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@quaff looks great!

privacyguides, to random
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Another week, another edition of . Get your brief overview of what’s been going on in the community and anything else you should know about in This Week in Privacy #5:

https://blog.privacyguides.org/2024/01/20/this-week-in-privacy-5/

privacyguides, to ghost
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For anyone who wants to stay up to date with our weekly This Week in Privacy updates series and/or any other blog posts we publish, we have a new email newsletter (self-hosted of course, and powered by ) just for you: https://blog.privacyguides.org/#/portal/signup

Coming later this week, a new Podcast RSS feed for listeners, so you can catch the latest streams outside of PeerTube/YouTube— stay tuned!

privacyguides, to random
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Happy new year! 🥳

The third edition of This Week in Privacy is out, covering some of the top headlines and other updates within the privacy and cybersecurity space over the last week. Have a read:

https://blog.privacyguides.org/2024/01/06/this-week-in-privacy-3/

privacyguides, to random
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The second edition of This Week in Privacy has just landed! Its our new weekly series where we cover the latest updates with what we're working on within the Privacy Guides community, and this week's top stories in the data privacy and cybersecurity space. Have a read:

https://blog.privacyguides.org/2023/12/16/this-week-in-privacy-2/

privacyguides, to random
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We're starting a new blog series where we cover what we're working on and news from around the privacy space every week, check it out: https://blog.privacyguides.org/2023/12/09/this-week-in-privacy-2023-12-09/

privacyguides, to random
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Foreign governments are spying on your push notification metadata via Apple and Google; U.S. Government forbade these companies from disclosing such requests: https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/governments-spying-apple-google-users-through-push-notifications-us-senator-2023-12-06/

privacyguides,
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@lps unfortunately, it's something that needs to be replaced by app developers with a FOSS solution like https://unifiedpush.org/ - it can't be swapped out by users.

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Tor is a free to use, decentralized network designed for using the internet with as much privacy as possible - and we've just revamped our overview on it:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/advanced/tor-overview/

tsudo, to privacy

Trying out some new privacy tools, Optery & Norton Safe Pic. Anything you use that I should check out?

privacyguides,
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@BWPanda thanks for the recommendation 🙌​

privacyguides, to random
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Lots of updates to the website this week, check them out 😄​ https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/v3-18/15135

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