We are excited to start a collaboration with Bits of Freedom to help maintain Fix je Privacy, a Dutch-language website providing practical tips to improve your online safety.

We are excited to start a collaboration with Bits of Freedom to help maintain Fix je Privacy, a Dutch-language website providing practical tips to improve your online safety.

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.

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.

Welcome to Episode 23 of This Week in Privacy.

GrapheneOS is finally breaking free from Google Pixel. This week, we discuss the new mystery hardware set to run the secure OS. We also cover a major Secure Boot flaw affecting Framework laptops and question…

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Do quantum computers have the ability to break our encryption, and are they actually a threat to the privacy of our communications? In this video, we dig into the details and separate fact from Silicon Valley hype!

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OpenAI has released a competitor to Google Chrome that's somehow even worse for your privacy, AWS just knocked half the internet down, and some US states are moving to ban VPNs. Join us for This Week In Privacy #24!

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Data brokerage is a billion-dollar industry built on selling your personal information without your knowledge or consent. In this video, we uncover the shady world of data brokers with investigative reporter Yael Grauer (Consumer Reports) to find out how…

“It’s not clear to me that a small red light would be sufficient notification in some states for someone to consent to being recorded.”

The Danes will seek to propose a voluntary detection regime in the CSAM proposal, instead of controversial mandatory detection orders

NOYB, the non-profit digital rights group, has filed a lawsuit against Clearview AI for its illegal collection of EU citizens’ face images, Apple might be pulling App Tracking Transparency from Europe, Microsoft Teams might be snitching on you to your boss…

Google's November 2025 fraud advisory identified malicious VPNs as a rising threat

Just before a decisive meeting in Brussels, digital rights expert and former Member of the European Parliament Dr. Patrick Breyer is sounding the alarm. Using a "deceptive sleight of hand," a mandatory and expanded Chat Control is being pushed through the…

Firefox is rolling out additional anti-fingerprinting detection, Chat Control is back and is being pushed through the EU Government, and much more. Join us for This Week In Privacy #27!

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Google recently uploaded a blog post stating that some of their proposed plans to validate developer identities on Android could be bypassed by "a new advanced flow."

The EU Commission has put forth their Digital Omnibus Regulation Proposal, which aims to simplify the GDPR in order to foster competitiveness.

Dutch-based computer manufacturer NovaCustom announced that they are selling a configurable version of the SHIFTphone 8.1, a modular smartphone similar to the Fairphone, with iodéOS.

The Monero node codebase now has significant fuzzing coverage over its RPC endpoints, thanks to work by ADA Logics, funded and contracted through MAGIC Grants.

The GrapheneOS project has announced on X that they are ceasing all operations in France, asserting that the country is no longer safe for "open source projects"

Windows will be getting a new feature called Copilot Actions that will allow Copilot to perform actions on behalf of the user by interacting with local files and applications.