New Privacy Guides article
by me:

While most social media rely on commercial models harvesting users' data to sell to advertisers,

Mastodon offers a human-centric alternative that doesn't seek profits from your data and attention.

This means better social connections, better controls, and better privacy!

The first part of this article discusses privacy and security on Mastodon.

The second part is a tutorial to guide you in making the most of Mastodon's security and privacy related features.

This tutorial includes how to:

• Enable multifactor authentication

• Adjust privacy vs discovery

• Select post visibility and access

• Verify yourself

• Delete and back up your data

• Block users and instances

• Opt out with hashtags

• Move from one instance to another

I hope this helps you making the most of what Mastodon has to offers!

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/07/15/mastodon-privacy-and-security/

We all love Mastodon here

While most social media apps rely on commercial models harvesting users' data, Mastodon offers an alternative that doesn't seek profits from your data and attention.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/07/15/mastodon-privacy-and-security/

New[ish] Privacy Guides article
by me:

Age verification laws have been multiplying in recent years. This is extremely bad news for your privacy rights.

While framed as a measure to
protect the children, collecting more data on every users of the internet endangers *everyone*, including the children.

This isn't a protective measure,
this is authoritarian policies normalizing mass surveillance and silencing dissidents.

It could very much become
the end of pseudonymity online,
if we do not push back against it.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/06/age-verification-wants-your-face/

How the NSA Tried to Backdoor Every Phone

https://neat.tube/w/qFThArEaKeHtDu78i27F29

New Privacy Guides article
by me:

When talking about data privacy and LGBTQ+ experiences, it's inevitable to also discuss queer dating apps.

Many factors contribute in making queer people more likely to seek love and friendship online.

Unfortunately, dating apps are horrible for data privacy, and it's even worse for queer dating apps.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/24/queer-dating-apps-beware-who-you-trust/

As we cover data privacy and LGBTQ+ experiences this June, it's inevitable that we must talk about dating apps.

Unfortunately, many of them are horrible when it comes to preserving your privacy.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/24/queer-dating-apps-beware-who-you-trust/

I want to share this insightful article from PrivacyGuides by Em on the power of saying NO to invasive data requests .

In today’s world of facial recognition and mass surveillance, refusing unnecessary data collection is key to protecting our privacy and freedoms .

Worth a read!

@privacyguides
@Em0nM4stodon

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/17/you-can-say-no/

New Privacy Guides article
by me:

Sometimes, it can feel like our data is being harvested left and right, completely outside of our control or consent.

Yet, we still have a powerful weapon to fight back against surveillance:

The power to say NO.

Saying no is how we stand a fighting chance against the normalization of mass surveillance.

We must exercise this right every time we possibly can.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/17/you-can-say-no/

In the age of facial recognition and age verification, it might feel like our data is being harvested left and right, completely outside our control or consent. Yet, we still have a powerful weapon to fight back against surveillance: The power to say no.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/17/you-can-say-no/

How to secure your phone before joining a protest https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/23/activists-guide-securing-your-smartphone/

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/

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/

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

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/

New Privacy Guides video
by @jw

Another piece of content for our Pride Month Series!

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/

Your guide to a new Search Engine

PS: btw, I'm happy user of searxng

Credits: @PurchaseWithPurpose

#privacyguides #privacy #dataprivacy #searchengine #duckduckgo #kagi #bravebrowser #searxng

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/

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/

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!

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/03/importance-of-privacy-for-the-queer-community/