How to secure your phone before joining a protest
✅ The Protesters' Guide to Smartphone Security
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/23/activists-guide-securing-your-smartphone/
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From: @jonah
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How to secure your phone before joining a protest https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/23/activists-guide-securing-your-smartphone/
#Privacy #Android #iOS #Security #NoKings #NoKingsDay #PrivacyGuides #ProtestSafely #ProtestSafety #DigitalSafety
This Pride Month, there are many reasons you might want to protest & fight for your rights.
If you do decide to join the action, make sure to prepare properly to keep yourself safe.
Your smartphone is an essential tool to organize and report, but it can also make you vulnerable to the mass surveillance many protests are targeted with.
Here’s how to prepare your device before a protest to minimize your risk: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/23/activists-guide-securing-your-smartphone/
#Privacy #Protest #Pride #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #June14 #NoKings #NoKingsDay #50501movement #USpol #PrivacyGuides #HowTo #Apple #AirDrop
Nowadays #convenience like a #Trojan_Horse.
#PrivacyGuides #article: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/07/selling-surveillance-as-convenience/
"Increasingly, surveillance is being normalized and integrated in our lives. Under the guise of convenience, applications and features are sold to us as being the new better way to do things. While some might be useful, this convenience is a Trojan horse. The cost of it is the continuous degradation of our privacy rights, with all that that entails."
"Whether this comes from ignorance, incompetence, greed, or malicious intent can be debated. It matters little, because the result is the same: Technologies collecting (and monetizing) a shameful amount of data from everyone."
"The response provided when privacy experts raise the alarm is often to minimize concerns saying "it's only optional, and people can opt out".
But for how long will we keep the right to opt out if we never exercise this right? How many dark patterns and intimidation techniques are used to pressure people into saying yes, or to make sure they never know about their right to opt out?"
P. S. I especially like the analogy between #face_scans in airports and a password which is stolen from you thousands of times and you aren't able to change it: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/07/selling-surveillance-as-convenience/#:~:text=Facial%20scans%20and,a%20new%20password.
#TravelConvenience #surveillance #mass_suirvellance #AI #privacy #privacyMatters #parking
Monero is a cryptocurrency with strong privacy properties by default, but your wallet still needs a way to connect privately to the network. The best solution is to run your own Monero node, a copy of the blockchain which allows you to connect without anyone else knowing when you're using your wallet or sending transactions.
Our latest tutorial showcases how to easily set up your own Monero node on your TrueNAS server, using MAGIC Grants's pre-packaged Monero apps: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/12/monero-server-using-truenas/
#Monero #Privacy #Cryptocurrency #TrueNAS #SelfHosting #PrivacyGuides #Tutorial #HowTo #Article
New Privacy Guides article 🌈💛
by me:
It's important to protect our data online, and this is doubly true for anyone in the queer community.
But protecting our data shouldn't mean staying isolated.
It can be difficult to find a balance,
but it is fundamental to stay connected with our communities.
There are tools and practices that can help us with this.
Stay safe 🔒
But stay connected :rainbow_heart:
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/10/stay-safe-but-stay-connected/
Balancing data protection and online connection can be difficult. Nevertheless, it's an essential skill to be able to stay safe online while staying connected.
This article is part two of a series for Pride month, focusing on topics at the intersection of data privacy and LGBTQ+ experiences.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/10/stay-safe-but-stay-connected/
#Privacy #PrideMonth #Community #DataPrivacy #Pride #Pride25 #PrivacyGuides #Article
New Privacy Guides video 🎞️ :neocat_box:
by @jw
Another piece of content for our Pride Month Series! :nyancat_rainbow:
This is a topic important for everyone, but especially important for the queer community.
If you are not yet familiar with the concept of compartmentalization, you should absolutely watch this excellent video 👇
https://www.privacyguides.org/videos/2025/06/05/compartmentalize-your-life/
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New Privacy Guides article 👁️⛔️
by me:
Increasingly, surveillance is being normalized and integrated in our lives.
Under the guise of convenience, applications are sold to us as the new better thing, but this convenience is a Trojan horse.
If we do not stand firm against this increased surveillance, even when it's inconvenient to do, we might soon lose our privacy rights.
#PrivacyGuides #Privacy #Surveillance #MassSurveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/07/selling-surveillance-as-convenience/
Increasingly, surveillance is being normalized and integrated in our lives. Under the guise of convenience, applications and features are sold to us as being the new better way to do things. While some might be useful, this convenience is a Trojan horse. The cost of it is the continuous degradation of our privacy rights, with all that that entails.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/07/selling-surveillance-as-convenience/
Compartmentalize Your Life (and Your Privacy)
Data privacy is important for everyone. But for some marginalized populations, data privacy is indispensable for social connection, access to information, and physical safety.
This article is part one of a series for Pride month, focusing on topics at the intersection of data privacy and LGBTQ+ experiences.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/03/importance-of-privacy-for-the-queer-community/
#Privacy #PrideMonth #DigitalSafety #Pride #Pride25 #DataPrivacy #PrivacyGuides #Pride2025 #Article
New Privacy Guides article 🌈🔒
by me:
Data privacy is important for everyone.
But for some marginalized groups,
data privacy is indispensable for social connection, access to information, and physical safety.
For Pride month this year,
we are happy to present you the first article of our series discussing topics at the intersection of data privacy and LGBTQ+ experiences.
Stay safe 🔒
Stay connected ✨
And Happy Pride! :rainbow_heart:
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/03/importance-of-privacy-for-the-queer-community/
Privacy Guides has adorned beautiful rainbow colors for this month of Pride.
And it's not just for show,
we mean it :rainbow_heart:
Personally, I think this in itself is
worth a follow in these trying times
:steven_wink: 👉 @privacyguides
But we also have excellent videos and articles coming up for you! Stay tuned! :rainbowdance:
Did you know that the United States attempted to restrict access to secure encryption algorithms outside its borders?
I created a video at @privacyguides explaining how Phil Zimmermann’s creation of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) challenged the U.S. government’s overreach and made strong encryption accessible to everyone globally. 🌎🌍🌏
This pivotal moment in privacy history has shaped our right to secure communications to this day. 🔒
https://www.privacyguides.org/videos/2025/05/08/when-code-became-a-weapon/
New Privacy Guides video 🎞️ :windows:
by @jw :
If you are using Windows,
or if you are interacting with anyone using Windows, you should watch this video.
Microsoft is bringing back Windows Recall.
What is this feature,
why it is problematic for privacy,
how to disable it,
and how to move to better systems.
I think you'll like the ending, FediFriends :linux: 👇
https://www.privacyguides.org/videos/2025/05/22/recall-is-back/
Microsoft is rolling out its controversial Recall feature to Windows users with Copilot+ PCs. However, there are still many privacy and security concerns that remain, even after its reworking.
https://www.privacyguides.org/videos/2025/05/22/recall-is-back/
#Recall #Privacy #Security #MicrosoftRecall #WindowsRecall #Microsoft #Windows #PrivacyGuides #Video
Recall Is Back, But You Still Shouldn’t Use It
With the popularity of generative AI, it's becoming more and more difficult to distinguish reality from fiction. Can this problem be solved using cryptography? What are the privacy implications of the currently proposed systems?
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/19/digital-provenance/
#AI #ContentCredentials #Privacy #Adobe #DigitalProvenance #Provenance #PrivacyGuides #Article #Opinion
