In this article, I talk about
how the current changes in the US are affecting the tools we use in privacy:

Each change of government can have a serious effect on data privacy legislation for better, or worse.

Privacy is a politically charged field.

Many privacy tools we use depend at least partially on government funding or on other tools which depend on government funding.

Current projects that could be impacted now or later include the Tor Project, the Python Software Foundation, and all the projects relying on these.

More on this here: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/03/the-future-of-privacy/

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