privacyguides
In the digital age, protecting your personal information might seem like an impossible task. We’re here to help.
This is a community for sharing news about privacy, posting information about cool privacy tools and services, and getting advice about your privacy journey.
You can subscribe to this community from any Kbin or Lemmy instance:
Check out our website at privacyguides.org before asking your questions here. We’ve tried answering the common questions and recommendations there!
Want to get involved? The website is open-source on GitHub, and your help would be appreciated!
This community is the “official” Privacy Guides community on Lemmy, which can be verified here. Other “Privacy Guides” communities on other Lemmy servers are not moderated by this team or associated with the website.
Moderation Rules:
- We prefer posting about open-source software whenever possible.
- This is not the place for self-promotion if you are not listed on privacyguides.org. If you want to be listed, make a suggestion on our forum first.
- No soliciting engagement: Don’t ask for upvotes, follows, etc.
- Surveys, Fundraising, and Petitions must be pre-approved by the mod team.
- Be civil, no violence, hate speech. Assume people here are posting in good faith.
- Don’t repost topics which have already been covered here.
- News posts must be related to privacy and security, and your post title must match the article headline exactly. Do not editorialize titles, you can post your opinions in the post body or a comment.
- Memes/images/video posts that could be summarized as text explanations should not be posted. Infographics and conference talks from reputable sources are acceptable.
- No help vampires: This is not a tech support subreddit, don’t abuse our community’s willingness to help. Questions related to privacy, security or privacy/security related software and their configurations are acceptable.
- No misinformation: Extraordinary claims must be matched with evidence.
- Do not post about VPNs or cryptocurrencies which are not listed on privacyguides.org. See Rule 2 for info on adding new recommendations to the website.
- General guides or software lists are not permitted. Original sources and research about specific topics are allowed as long as they are high quality and factual. We are not providing a platform for poorly-vetted, out-of-date or conflicting recommendations.
Additional Resources:
- Submitted 3 weeks ago by Forumite@lemm.ee | 52 comments
- Submitted 3 weeks ago by freddy@lemmy.one | 0 comments
- Submitted 3 weeks ago by Forumite@lemm.ee | 1 comment
- Google Pays $1.375 Billion to Texas Over Unauthorized Tracking and Biometric Data Collectionthehackernews.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago by Forumite@lemm.ee | 1 comment
- Submitted 4 weeks ago by Forumite@lemm.ee | 7 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago by Forumite@lemm.ee | 46 comments
- Submitted 3 weeks ago by Forumite@lemm.ee | 13 comments
- Submitted 4 weeks ago by Forumite@lemm.ee | 11 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago by TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world | 81 comments
- Submitted 1 month ago by BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info | 11 comments
- Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search resultsleta.mullvad.net ↗Submitted 2 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world | 44 comments
- Submitted 1 month ago by Forumite@lemm.ee | 8 comments
- Submitted 3 weeks ago by Forumite@lemm.ee | 2 comments
- Submitted 1 month ago by Forumite@lemm.ee | 41 comments
- Submitted 1 month ago by Forumite@lemm.ee | 38 comments
- Submitted 3 months ago by Forumite@lemm.ee | 12 comments
- Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic | Mozilla says it deleted promise because "sale of data" is defined broadlyarstechnica.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world | 27 comments
- Submitted 3 months ago by freddy@lemmy.one | 8 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago by Forumite@lemm.ee | 5 comments
- Submitted 4 weeks ago by HardenedSteel@monero.town | 5 comments
- UnitedHealth updates data breach impact to 190 million people, nearly doubling previous estimatewww.techspot.com ↗Submitted 4 months ago by Forumite@lemm.ee | 22 comments
- Submitted 3 months ago by Forumite@lemm.ee | 11 comments
- Submitted 1 month ago by Forumite@lemm.ee | 2 comments
- Submitted 4 weeks ago by Forumite@lemm.ee | 1 comment
- Submitted 1 month ago by nitefox@sh.itjust.works [bot] | 17 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago by jimi_henrik@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Submitted 1 month ago by Forumite@lemm.ee | 22 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago by Forumite@lemm.ee | 3 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world | 27 comments
- Submitted 1 month ago by Forumite@lemm.ee | 3 comments