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Data Breach Roundup (Jan 9 – Jan 15, 2026)
— A data breach forum having a breach, an investment platform sweeping theirs under the rug, major shipping company ignoring disclosures, and more.
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Bluetooth Exploit Leaves Hundreds of Millions of Accessories Vulnerable to Full Takeover
— Researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Google Fast Pair, dubbed WhisperPair, that leaves affected accessories open to being fully controlled by an attacker.
Why Privacy is Like Broccoli
Believe it or not, there’s a lot of parallels between being healthy and privacy. Both seem simple on the surface but get complicated fast. Yet, both are achievable. So what can the health journey teach us about the privacy journey?
Hush Line review: An accessible whistleblowing platform for journalists and lawyers alike
Tip lines don't work if your source does not know how to use them. Hush Line tries to make this process easier for the most vulnerable in society, but how does it actually work?
Latest Privacy & Security Headlines
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Windscribe launches privacy alliance with Addy.io, Notesnook, Kagi, and Ente
By offering discounts to current users, Windscribe wants you to invest your money into specialists, not bundled ecosystems.
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Trail of Bits Exposes Vulnerabilities in Agentic Browsers, Compares to Cross-Site Scripting
Security research and consulting firm Trail of Bits analyzed agentic AI in browsers and found vulnerabilites that resemble cross-site scripting (XSS) and cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.
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Another private equity firm acquires Threema
Funded by private equity firm AFINUM Management since 2020, Threema has agreed to a secondary buyout from Comitis Capital.
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Encrypted RCS Spotted in iOS 26.3 Beta
Mention of the long-awaited RCS end-to-end encryption (E2EE) support in the iOS 26.3 beta was spotted by Tiion-X83 on X via a carrier bundle setting that would let carriers enable E2EE for RCS messaging.
This Week in Privacy
We're live on YouTube Fridays at 4 PM CST / 21:00 UTC to talk about privacy news from around the industry, updates from our own team, and anything else you want to discuss.
What can we do about the RAM and SSD shortage?
AI data centers have caused an unprecedented shortage of DRAM and NAND, increasing prices on everything from computers to smartphones. If you want to purchase a device without breaking the bank, here is what you can do so securely.
Bad Internet Bills: KOSA, The SCREEN Act, and Repealing Section 230
Nate Bartram sat down with technology journalist Taylor Lorenz to decipher the slate of bills being fast-tracked through Congress which threaten free speech, privacy, and your right to freely access information on the internet.
Email Security: Where We Are and What the Future Holds
Email is ubiquitous. If you want to function in modern society, you pretty much have to have an email address, but what was originally just a simple protocol to send messages between machines has morphed beyond what it was originally intended for.
Data Brokers Know Everything About You (Interview with Yael Grauer)
Data brokerage is a billion-dollar industry built on selling your personal information without your knowledge or consent. This is what you need to know to keep your information protected.
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Trustworthy Reviews
As a non-profit project, Privacy Guides has strict journalistic standards and policies to ensure our recommendations are free of conflicts of interest, and we do not partner with providers or affiliate programs that could sway our reviews and recommendations.
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Community-Built
Privacy Guides has a dedicated community independently reviewing various privacy tools and services. Each of our recommendations comply with a strict set of criteria to ensure they provide the most value to most people, and provide the best balance of privacy, security, and convenience.
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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).
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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.
Become a member
Support our mission to defend digital rights and spread the word about mass surveillance programs and other daily privacy invasions. You can help Privacy Guides researchers, activists, and maintainers create informative content, host private digital services, and protect privacy rights at a time when the world needs it most.
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Privacy Guides launches merch shop with new designs for in-person advocacy
— The Privacy Guides non-profit launched a new web store on Black Friday featuring quality product designs for people who want to advocate for digital rights and Privacy Guides' resources within their local communities.
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Privacy Guides Reveals Full-Time Educational Video Team Hire
— Privacy Guides, an impartial, non-profit organization focused on building a strong privacy & digital rights advocacy community, announced today that Nate Bartram would join its video production team as the latest full-time staff contributor.