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Privacy Guides is a socially motivated website that provides information for protecting your data security and privacy.

We are a non-profit project with a mission to inform the public about the value of digital privacy, and about global government initiatives which aim to monitor your online activity. Our website is free of advertisements and not affiliated with any of the listed providers.

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Privacy Guides20m ago
Jonah Aragon 43m ago

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116435835882195004

Can we instead stop ceding all the words that are useful descriptors to the right just because they start using them?

I also have this issue with libertarianism, which should describe a useful political position about liberty from government abuses independently from your views on economic policies, but now just makes you sound like a gun toting nut. This makes it harder to defend against the narrative that everyone on the left is rooting for some authoritarian communist society.

The same goes for many internet memes and sayings that were once universally used, e.g. Pepe the Frog. It is no wonder members of younger generations keep falling to the alt-right, when the right is co-opting all the things they enjoy, and everyone else not only lets them, but actively works to make those popular things be seen as hateful. In this example, the popular idea that Pepe the Frog is a hate symbol stems almost entirely from some uninformed, reactionary article the Clinton campaign posted to try and smear Trump, then got the media to repeat forever.

Privacy Guides21h ago

Of course, we publish to our website and PeerTube. However, if you use the YouTube mobile app, it’d be a great help if you “hyped” our new videos after watching them.

YouTube is still the primary way we reach *new* video audiences, and any positive signs we can give the algorithm will help spread the word.

#YouTube #Videos #Privacy

Privacy Guides21h ago

Walmart is implementing digital price tags across all their stores by the end of the year.

We’re entering an era when the price you pay is not correlated to the cost of a product to stores, but “optimized” for the maximum amount you can personally afford.

Surveillance capitalism is what will actually create the “permanent underclass” some people are so worried about, and you’ll be affected more than you think.

Privacy Guides23h ago

We just had a chance to interview Carissa Véliz, author of Privacy is Power and associate professor at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford.

We talked about how predictive AI will make a 'meritocracy' impossible, how lifelike chat bots are designed to deceive you, and the importance of privacy in the digital age. Catch the episode on our YouTube channel or your favorite podcast app now!

Carissa Véliz is an associate professor at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford, a renowned author and speaker, a board member of the Proton Foundation, and a member of UNESCO's Women 4 Ethical AI.

Her new book Prophecy comes out April 21st and is now available for pre-order.

Prophecy is about how extensive use of predictive analytics is undermining our abilities to defy the odds, making systems unaccountable, and increasing risk in business and society while creating a false sense of security.

https://www.privacyguides.org/videos/2026/04/19/interview-with-carissa-veliz-author-of-privacy-is-power-and-prophecy/

#AIEthics #Data #Interview #PredictiveAI #Prophecy #PrivacyIsPower #CarissaVeliz #Privacy #OxfordUniversity #PrivacyGuides

Interview with Carissa Véliz, Author of "Privacy is Power" and "Prophecy"

We sat down with Carissa Véliz, author of 'Privacy is Power' and Oxford AI Ethics professor, to talk about how predictive AI will make a 'meritocracy' impossible, how lifelike chat bots are designed to deceive you, and the importance of privacy in the digital age.

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Privacy Guides2d ago
This Week in Privacy Ep. 49 is now live 🔴 Join the chat, say hi, and ask any questions you'd like for our Q&A later in the stream: https://streamyard.com/watch/dja38nDABgip
Are Privacy Opt-Outs Useless? | This Week in Privacy #49 (Apr 17, 2026)

An independant privacy audit of Microsoft, Google and Meta has found that privacy opt outs didn't have an effect, Cal.com has moved from open-source to closed-source, Netgear has been exempt from the FCC's non-US made router ban, and more! Join us for This Week In Privacy #49.

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Privacy Guides2d ago

🚨 This Week In Privacy #49 will be live in 30 minutes, we'll be talking about how an independent privacy audit found that Google, Microsoft & Meta privacy opt-outs are ineffective, we will also be covering the latest in privacy & security news. 🗞️

We'll be chatting with the communtiy & answering questions, come say hi! 👋

https://streamyard.com/watch/dja38nDABgip

#Privacy #PrivacyGuides #TWIP

Are Privacy Opt-Outs Useless? | This Week in Privacy #49 (Apr 17, 2026)

An independant privacy audit of Microsoft, Google and Meta has found that privacy opt outs didn't have an effect, Cal.com has moved from open-source to closed-source, Netgear has been exempt from the FCC's non-US made router ban, and more! Join us for This Week In Privacy #49.

StreamYard
Privacy Guides2d ago
Electronic Frontier Foundation3d ago
Cindy Cohn sat down with @privacyguides to reflect on her 30 years of service defending privacy and digital civil liberties with EFF, the importance of community in activist spaces, and the big picture in our fight for privacy. https://youtu.be/-PFv0ki3nDc?si=nqDmqiBKBGmDg_aS
"National security people are playing the long game" - Cindy Cohn, EFF Executive Director

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Privacy Guides3d ago
Discourse3d ago

After 13 years of building Discourse in public, we're excited to announce: we're staying open.

Discourse has always and will always be open source.

Here's why.

https://blog.discourse.org/2026/04/discourse-is-not-going-closed-source/

Discourse is Not Going Closed Source

Cal.com just closed their source code, arguing AI has made open source too dangerous. After 13 years of building Discourse in public, we're staying open. Here's why.

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Privacy Guides3d ago
Privacy Guides5d ago

ICYMI, be sure you catch our interview with Cindy Cohn, @eff Executive Director and prolific civil liberties attorney in the fight for digital rights.

Cindy sat down with us in Ann Arbor, MI to discuss her work, the origins of the EFF, her latest book “Privacy’s Defender,” and the still-ongoing fight for privacy and digital liberties 💪

Watch now: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-PFv0ki3nDc

#EFF #Interview #PrivacysDefender #CindyCohn #DigitalRights #Privacy #Security #Law

"I like to win." - Cindy Cohn, EFF's Executive Director (Interview)

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Privacy Guides5d ago

ICYMI, be sure you catch our interview with Cindy Cohn, @eff Executive Director and prolific civil liberties attorney in the fight for digital rights.

Cindy sat down with us in Ann Arbor, MI to discuss her work, the origins of the EFF, her latest book “Privacy’s Defender,” and the still-ongoing fight for privacy and digital liberties 💪

Watch now: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-PFv0ki3nDc

#EFF #Interview #PrivacysDefender #CindyCohn #DigitalRights #Privacy #Security #Law

"I like to win." - Cindy Cohn, EFF's Executive Director (Interview)

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