Data Breach Roundup (Feb 27 - Mar 5, 2026)
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Data Breach Roundup (Feb 27 – Mar 5, 2026)
A lighter than normal week, but still we saw LexisNexis, a global paint maker, and more get hit, plus an update to the UH Cancer Center's breach.
Stop Trying to Fix Your Privacy Overnight
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Stop Trying to Fix Your Privacy Overnight
Privacy is like broccoli. Find out how in this video.
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Real-Name Policies: The War Against Pseudonymity
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Real-Name Policies: The War Against Pseudonymity
Real-name policies have existed for over a decade, but these problems have become exponentially harmful in today's world. It's time to fight back against this unsafe and discriminatory privacy-invasive practice.
(Video Demo) Proton VPN Kill Switch Not Working as Described on macOS
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Proton VPN is lying to you.
ProtonVPN's kill switch is leaking your IP address on macOS. Despite Proton's false claim that the regular kill switch protects you when switching servers, it's trivial to see this isn't the case.
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Email Security: Where We Are and What the Future Holds
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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 is it really a good idea to still be relying on the same decades old techology? What can we do about replacing it?
Hush Line review: An accessible whistleblowing platform for journalists and lawyers alike
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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?
Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features
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Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features
Previously: Leak confirms GrapheneOS & Motorola partnership for non-Pixel hardware
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Why Incognito Mode is a Lie.
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Why Incognito Mode is a Lie.
Incognito Mode or Private Browsing mode is a feature that every browser has, but what if that was a lie and your activity in private mode could still be tracked?
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The 3 Top Password Managers Had SERIOUS Flaws...
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The 3 Top Password Managers Had SERIOUS Flaws...
When services claim to be "zero knowledge," that means they should be safe even if the server is compromised. Bitwarden, Dashlane, and LastPass failed to meet this criteria.
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Smartphone Security Video Course
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Smartphone Privacy & Security Course: Secure Your Device Now!
Welcome to the Ultimate Smartphone Security Course. In this series, we’ll explore changes you can make to your device and habits to boost your privacy and security. No matter your device, you can make significant improvements on both Android and iOS. We’ll…
Paste.ente.io - Private E2EE Pastebin by Ente
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Paste.ente.io - Private E2EE Pastebin by Ente
“Ente Paste is a simple way to share sensitive text, fast: API keys, snippets, notes, or instructions. It’s built for privacy first: End-to-end encrypted links Anonymous use (no account required) One-time access (opening consumes the paste) Automatic…
Navigating Social Circles and Mental Health
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Navigating Social Circles and Mental Health
The simplest way to put this is that I’m exhausted. It feels like we are fighting a losing battle and things keep getting worse. Age Verification for OS’ (so far just in California but I could see it spread) and pretty much all mainstream user facing platforms…
How To Improve Your Privacy and Security on Mastodon
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How To Improve Your Privacy and Security on Mastodon
This article is a tutorial on how to improve your Mastodon account's security, and how to adjust the different privacy features to your preferences.
Technology Has Consequences: How SXSW 2007 Changed The World | Privacy Guides @ EFF-Austin
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Technology Has Consequences | Hugh Forrest | EFF-Austin Interactive '26
Hugh Forrest is the former co-president of South by Southwest (SXSW) and co-founder of SXSW Interactive, where many modern tech names were made. In this talk, Hugh talks about where Interactive 2007 went wrong and what lessons we can learn for the future…
A lot of people have complained to me about Visionary lacking features, but the Proton community itself doesn’t seem to care. Is this a real problem, or a vocal minority?
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Interview with EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn: "I like to win."
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"National security people are playing the long game" - Cindy Cohn, EFF Executive Director
Privacy Guides sat down with EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn to reflect on her over 30 years of service defending privacy and digital civil liberties at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the importance of community in activist spaces, and the big picture…
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Interview with Carissa Véliz, Oxford AI Ethics Professor & author of "Privacy is Power" - We discuss her latest book "Prophecy," how predictive AI trained on your data makes a meritocracy impossible, the detriments of surveillance pricing, and the importance of preserving your digital privacy.
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Why Feeding Predictive AI Our Data Undermines Free Will - Carissa Véliz
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…
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