Notices by Privacy Guides (privacyguides@mastodon.neat.computer), page 2

Are you planning on attending a protest soon? Your smartphone can be an essential tool, but it's also a huge risk to your privacy, security, and safety. If you decide to bring one along, you need to keep yourself protected:

(🔥 hot tip: this advice is still great even if you aren't hitting the streets!)

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/23/activists-guide-securing-your-smartphone/

#Privacy #Security #PeacefulProtest #Protest #Guide #NoKings #NoKingsDay #Activism #ActivistSecurity #Cybersecurity #Article #PrivacyGuides

🕑 EU Citizens have 4 days: the clock is ticking!

European countries are finalizing their positions on Chat Control this Friday. If your country supports Chat Control, it is vital you contact your representatives and voice your opposition to the EU's latest surveillance and censorship tactic. 🇪🇺

The latest from staff writer Em: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/09/08/chat-control-must-be-stopped/

#ChatControl #EU #Privacy #E2EE #StopChatControl #CSAR #ChatControle #Bulgaria #Croatia #Cyprus #Denmark #France #Hungary #Ireland #Italy #Latvia #Lithuania #Malta #Portugal #Slovakia #Spain #Sweden #EUpol #CSARegulation #Article #PrivacyGuides

Privacy is a marathon, not a sprint.

It's common to be overwhelmed by the constant attacks on privacy we read about every day, and to burn out trying to fix every problem all at once.

This is by the attackers' design, of course. Big tech companies and governments want to paralyze you with choices and actions, so you give up on the fight entirely.

It's okay to take a breath, clean up slowly, and train yourself over the long-term to improve your data privacy health over time.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/07/24/privacy-is-like-broccoli/

#Privacy #PrivacyHabits #PrivacyGuides #HealthyHabits #PrivacyTraining #Training #SelfImprovement #Article

Increasingly, surveillance is being normalized and integrated in our lives. Under the guise of convenience, applications and features are sold to us as being the new better way to do things. While some might be useful, this convenience is a Trojan horse. The cost of it is the continuous degradation of our privacy rights, with all that that entails.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/07/selling-surveillance-as-convenience/

#Privacy #DigitalRights #PrivacyGuides #Article

Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced his ambitious plan for the World project, formerly known as Worldcoin.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/10/sam-altman-wants-your-eyeball/

#Worldcoin #WorldProject #SamAltman #OpenAI #Privacy #Biometrics #Cryptocurrency #AI #PrivacyGuides #Article

@silverpill https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/about tentatively thinking we are having better luck with this plugin

Age verification laws and propositions forcing platforms to restrict content accessed by children and teens have been multiplying in recent years. The problem is, implementing such measures necessarily requires identifying each user accessing this content, one way or another. This is bad news for your privacy.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/06/age-verification-wants-your-face/

#AgeVerification #Privacy #FacialRecognition #PrivacyGuides #Article

Discussing privacy and cybersecurity on Reddit and Twitter? That doesn't make too much sense to us.

Privacy Guides is doing something different! Join our forum to discuss the news, chat about tech, and get advice from the internet's largest community of personal privacy advocates and experts.

https://discuss.privacyguides.net

#PrivacyGuides #Forum #Discourse #Community #SelfHosted #SelfHostedCommunity #PrivacyCommunity

Privacy reminder! Have you disabled AirDrop yet?

One of the most innocuous features enabled on millions of iPhones is also one of the most dangerous for those seeking to protect their privacy in public. Apple's AirDrop protocol uses trivially bypassed security measures that authorities like the Chinese government have openly bragged about cracking to identify users since at least 2022.

You should assume that any device with AirDrop enabled is constantly broadcasting your name, email address, and phone number to everyone around you, even if you have it set to "Contacts Only." Apple has known about this flaw since 2019 and has not issued any fix.

#AirDrop #Apple #Privacy #PrivacyGuides #ApplePrivacy

Privacy is a human right that should be granted to everyone, no matter the reason. But for millions of people around the world, data privacy is also crucial for their physical safety. For people in extreme situations, privacy can literally mean life or death.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/25/privacy-means-safety/

#Privacy #Article #PrivacyGuides #HumanRights

Privacy isn't just a solo journey. If you care about privacy rights, you must also care for the data of the people around you. Together, we must start building a culture of data privacy where everyone cares for the data of others.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/10/the-privacy-of-others/

#Privacy #PrivacyCulture #Article #PrivacyGuides

Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/17/privacy-is-not-dead/

#Privacy #Article #PrivacyGuides

X/Twitter time and time again proves itself to be an unfree platform, and a dangerous place to seek privacy and security advice.

Decentralized platforms like Mastodon are the most obvious path forward to avoid censorship and preserve free access to knowledge. Despite this, many continue to rely on Twitter as their exclusive means to stay up to date on the latest trends both in privacy/security and the wider world.

Due to this censorship, these folks will have increasingly large blind spots in their personal knowledge. How do we finally convince people to protect themselves against this ever-growing threat?

https://www.theverge.com/news/613997/x-blocks-signal-me-links-errors

#Signal #Twitter #X #Privacy #Security #Mastodon #Article

🎉 We've reached 10k followers! 🎉

Thank you to everyone who has joined us in our journey of spreading privacy online 🙌

https://www.privacyguides.org/

There is a growing number of people who no longer feel safe in their own home or country. Whatever the reason, many people might not feel safe to browse certain topics online 🌐

If you're in this situation, the Tails live operating system from @torproject can help. Tails protects against censorship and surveillance, and it lets you use a computer without leaving any trace of your browsing history afterward.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/29/installing-and-using-tails/

Thanks for mentioning us in your latest video @emilyyoung! Good luck with your new channel! 💛
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELnX3gEHuHI

If you’re going to participate in a protest or other form of activism, you need to keep yourself protected.

Your smartphone can be an essential tool, but it also represents a huge risk to your privacy and security. If you decide to bring a phone along, understanding these best practices when it comes to securing it will help keep you and your data safe.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/23/activists-guide-securing-your-smartphone/

#privacy #security #guide

Earlier today, Google rejected a feature request asking for the option to use DNS-over-HTTPS servers other than Google’s and Cloudflare’s in Android: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/331250145?pli=1#comment7

According to Google’s own testing, DoH is more private, secure, and performant than DoT on Android. There is no reason whatsoever to limit it to a handful of Google-approved servers.

Just like with Manifest V3 in Chrome, this arbitrary restriction on what DNS servers can use the most modern technologies in Android is a clear example of Google abusing their position to campaign against blocking invasive trackers. One of the clearest uses for custom DNS servers is the ability to block privacy-invasive services like Google’s at the DNS level.

Further details & discussion on our forum: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/google-rejects-feature-request-for-arbitrary-dns-over-https-server-support/24320

#android #google #privacy #dns

We are saddened to hear that DivestOS will no longer be maintained, including their other mobile projects such as Mull and Hypatia. We're therefore removing them from our site, but wish the developer well with their future endeavours.

https://divestos.org/pages/news#end

Multi-Party Relays aim to provide better privacy protections than VPNs do. They showed a lot of promise when they first emerged, but years later there are fewer options than ever. What happened?

📝 New opinion piece from team member @friadev https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2024/11/17/where-are-all-the-mprs/