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 We are not providing a platform for poorly-vetted, out-of-date or conflicting recommendations.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 months ago by TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world | 81 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 3 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world | 44 comments
- Submitted 5 weeks ago by freddy@lemmy.one | 0 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago by BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info | 11 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 3 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world | 27 comments
- Submitted 4 months ago by freddy@lemmy.one | 8 comments
- Submitted 3 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world | 27 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago by jimi_henrik@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago by nitefox@sh.itjust.works [bot] | 17 comments
- Mozilla is Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox | Also about to go into effect is an updated privacy noticewww.omgubuntu.co.uk ↗Submitted 3 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world | 27 comments
- Submitted 5 months ago by HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com | 6 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago by neme@lemm.ee | 1 comment
- Submitted 3 months ago by freddy@lemmy.one | 8 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago by neme@lemm.ee | 9 comments
- Submitted 3 months ago by Showroom7561@lemmy.ca | 4 comments
- Submitted 1 month ago by HardenedSteel@monero.town | 5 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago by lwadmin@lemmy.world | 11 comments
- Signal's nickname feature can protect you from accidentally adding the wrong person to a group chatwww.404media.co ↗Submitted 2 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Submitted 3 months ago by vk6flab@lemmy.radio | 3 comments
- Submitted 3 months ago by F04118F@feddit.nl | 1 comment
- Submitted 3 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Submitted 3 months ago by towelie@lemm.ee | 8 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago by doodledup@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago by androidul@lemmy.ml | 42 comments
- Submitted 3 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Submitted 2 months ago by MoonlightFox@lemmy.world | 51 comments
- GitHub - bugfishtm/bugfish-nuke: A Windows tool for emergency privacy: instantly deletes sensitive data and active logins to protect my information during unexpected searches or house warrants.github.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago by Tablaste@linux.community | 1 comment
- Submitted 4 months ago by pjusk@lemmy.dbzer0.com | 11 comments
- Submitted 5 months ago by freddy@lemmy.one | 5 comments
- Submitted 5 months ago by neme@lemm.ee | 15 comments