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January 10 Is Google Abandoning Open Source?｜This Week in Privacy #35 (Jan 9, 2026)
Google is changing how they release Android Open Source Project code, California is introducing a way for people to mass opt-out of data brokers, cryptocurrency theft attacks are still being traced to the 2022 Lastpass breach and much more! Join us for This Week in Privacy #35!
Timestamps:
0:00 Starting soon
3:35 Intro
3:54 Start of podcast
4:55 Site updates
8:43 Breaking: Google will now only release Android source code twice a year
25:47 Italy Fines Cloudflare €14 Million for Refusing to Filter Pirate Sites on Public 1.1.1.1 DNS
47:42 The nation’s strictest privacy law just took effect, to data brokers’ chagrin
58:11 Founder of spyware maker pcTattletale pleads guilty to hacking and advertising surveillance software
1:11:55 Cryptocurrency theft attacks traced to 2022 LastPass breach
1:23:20 Forum updates
1:36:22 Q&A
1:58:20 Outro
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Privacy Guides is a nonprofit project dedicated to promoting privacy, best cybersecurity practices, and digital rights. As a part of MAGIC Grants, a 501(c)(3) public charity, your donation to support our cause may be tax deductible.
🎬 Credits
Host: Kevin Pham (he/him)
Host: Nate Bartram (he/him)
Producer: Jordan Warne (they/them)
Researcher: Kevin Pham
#twip #privacy #livestream
2 hr
January 10 Can You Get Arrested For Wiping Your Phone?｜This Week in Privacy #31 (Dec 12, 2025)
A man is being charged for wiping his phone before being arrested, India is considering enabling GPS tracking on all mobile devices, a remote code execution vulnerability is exploiting over 30 organisations and 70k IP addresses, RAM shortages are causing massive increases in RAM costs, and much more, join us for This Week In Privacy #31!
Timestamps:
0:00 Starting soon
3:28 Intro
3:50 Start of podcast
5:15 Site updates
8:58 Atlanta activist charged with wiping phone before CBP search
25:14 Australia bans teens from social media, but nobody thinks it’ll really work
45:14 AI browsing in Brave Nightly now available for early testing
1:00:32 Tourists to US would have to reveal five years of social media activity under new Trump plan
1:12:41 India considers enforcing A-GPS on Mobile Devices
1:19:06 React2Shell flaw exploited to breach 30 orgs, 77k IP addresses vulnerable
1:27:32 Forum updates
1:33:29 Q&A
1:47:36 Outro
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YouTube is known for silent censorship and general privacy malfeasance. If you want to discuss this video you can do so on our forum at https://discuss.privacyguides.net in addition to commenting here, and you can follow our channel on the fediverse at: https://neat.tube/c/privacyguides/videos
Privacy Guides is a nonprofit project dedicated to promoting privacy, best cybersecurity practices, and digital rights. As a part of MAGIC Grants, a 501(c)(3) public charity, your donation to support our cause may be tax deductible.
🎬 Credits
Host: Jonah Aragon
Host: Nate Bartram
Producer: Jordan Warne
Researcher: Kevin Pham
#twip #privacy #livestream
1 hr 50 min
January 10 Session Is Getting A Major Privacy & Security Boost!｜This Week in Privacy #30 (Dec 5, 2025)
Session Messenger is getting a major privacy & security upgrade, age verification laws are shifting responsibility onto App Stores, Apple rejects India's government request to preload devices with a "cyber safety app", and much more, join us for This Week In Privacy #30!
Timestamps:
0:00 Starting soon
1:47 Intro
2:07 Start of podcast
3:16 Site updates
5:30 Session messenger adds PDF, PQE, and other improvements
19:35 A nationwide internet age verification plan is sweeping Congress
41:45 Introducing Proton Sheets: Protect the data that drives your business
49:05 A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code
1:13:21 After intense backlash, India pulls mandate to preinstall government app on smartphones
1:21:11 Forum updates
1:28:56 Q&A
2:03:08 Outro
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Copyright ©️ 2025 Privacy Guides. This video is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International license.
YouTube is known for silent censorship and general privacy malfeasance. If you want to discuss this video you can do so on our forum at https://discuss.privacyguides.net in addition to commenting here, and you can follow our channel on the fediverse at: https://neat.tube/c/privacyguides/videos
Privacy Guides is a nonprofit project dedicated to promoting privacy, best cybersecurity practices, and digital rights. As a part of MAGIC Grants, a 501(c)(3) public charity, your donation to support our cause may be tax deductible.
🎬 Credits
Host: Kevin Pham
Host: Nate Bartram
Producer: Jordan Warne
Researcher: Kevin Pham
#twip #privacy #livestream
2 hr 5 min
January 10 GrapheneOS Desktop Mode is Here!｜This Week in Privacy #29 (Nov 28, 2025)
GrapheneOS now has expanded desktop mode features in beta, X (Twitter) has been doxing user's locations, Android's Quick Share is now compatible with Apple's AirDrop and much more, join us for This Week In Privacy #29!
Timestamps:
0:00 Start of livestream
5:48 Intro
6:10 Start of podcast
8:42 Site updates
14:47 Android 16 QPR1 GrapheneOS Update Featuring Desktop Mode
26:56 Google’s new ‘Aluminium OS’ project brings Android to PC: Here’s what to know
33:18 X (Twitter Now Shows Your Account’s Country/Region
44:00 Google made Quick Share compatible with AirDrop without Apple’s help
50:26 Signal Rolls Out Secure Backups for iOS in Beta
59:16 Forum Updates
1:02:30 Q&A
1:36:05 Outro
Please 👍 like and 🔔 subscribe to our channel to support our work and find out about our latest video content!
❤️ Support our work: https://www.privacyguides.org/#/portal/
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Copyright ©️ 2025 Privacy Guides. This video is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International license.
YouTube is known for silent censorship and general privacy malfeasance. If you want to discuss this video you can do so on our forum at https://discuss.privacyguides.net in addition to commenting here, and you can follow our channel on the fediverse at: https://neat.tube/c/privacyguides/videos
Privacy Guides is a nonprofit project dedicated to promoting privacy, best cybersecurity practices, and digital rights. As a part of MAGIC Grants, a 501(c)(3) public charity, your donation to support our cause may be tax deductible.
🎬 Credits
Host: Jordan Warne
Host: Nate Bartram
Producer: Jordan Warne
Researcher: Kevin Pham
#twip #privacy #livestream
1 hr 39 min
January 10 We've Hired Someone New!｜This Week in Privacy #28 (Nov 21, 2025)
Welcoming Nate Bartram to Privacy Guides! Also: WhatsApp is rolling out interoperable messaging in the EU, Windows 11 is rolling out an AI agent that scans your files and folders, and much more. Join us for This Week In Privacy #28!
Nate has been publishing resources at @TheNewOil for many years now, and is the former host of the @surveillancereport podcast. We're really excited about our plans going forward into 2026, and we shared a bunch of them in this video!
Timestamps:
0:00 Start of livestream
0:17 Intro
0:38 Start of podcast
0:55 Announcing our newest team member
2:13 Nate Bartram joins Privacy Guides
5:35 Introducing the layout of the show
6:33 Site updates
12:29 Europe is scaling back it’s landmark privacy and AI laws
20:00 Elcomsoft Achieves Full Filesystem Extraction for Apple TV 4K on tvOS 26
28:37 Privacy-friendly phone: SHIFTphone 8.1 with iodeOS
43:16 GrapheneOS migrates server infrastructure from France amid police intimidation claims
56:39 Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk
1:08:22 Forum updates
1:17:35 Q&A
1:52:05 Outro
Please 👍 like and 🔔 subscribe to our channel to support our work and find out about our latest video content!
❤️ Support our work: https://www.privacyguides.org/#/portal/
💬 Join the community: https://discuss.privacyguides.net
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Have a question, comment, or tip for us? You can securely reach us on Signal at @privacyguides.01 https://www.privacyguides.org/en/about/
Copyright ©️ 2025 Privacy Guides. This video is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International license.
YouTube is known for silent censorship and general privacy malfeasance. If you want to discuss this video you can do so on our forum at https://discuss.privacyguides.net in addition to commenting here, and you can follow our channel on the fediverse at: https://neat.tube/c/privacyguides/videos
Privacy Guides is a nonprofit project dedicated to promoting privacy, best cybersecurity practices, and digital rights. As a part of MAGIC Grants, a 501(c)(3) public charity, your donation to support our cause may be tax deductible.
🎬 Credits
Host: Jonah Aragon
Host: Jordan Warne
Host: Nate Bartram
Producer: Jonah Aragon
Researcher: Kevin Pham
#twip #privacy #livestream
1 hr 55 min
January 10 Firefox Just Got More Privacy Defences!｜This Week in Privacy #27 (Nov 14, 2025)
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!
Timestamps:
0:00 Start of livestream
0:56 Intro
1:16 Start of podcast
2:17 Site updates
6:07 Mozilla's Firefox 145 is heeeeeere: Buffs up privacy, bloats AI
14:12 Firefox adds AI Window, users want AI wall to keep it out
26:20 The wait is over: Android 16 QPR1’s source code is now available on AOSP
37:20 The Disguised Return of The EU’s Private Message Scanning Plot
48:50 How to Stop Chat Control
51:55 Breaking: Google is easing up on Android’s new sideloading restrictions!
55:49 Elon Musk’s X botched security key switchover, locking users out
1:02:22 Forum updates
1:12:05 Q&A
1:38:45 Outro
Please 👍 like and 🔔 subscribe to our channel to support our work and find out about our latest video content!
❤️ Support our work: https://www.privacyguides.org/#/portal/
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Copyright ©️ 2025 Privacy Guides. This video is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International license.
YouTube is known for silent censorship and general privacy malfeasance. If you want to discuss this video you can do so on our forum at https://discuss.privacyguides.net in addition to commenting here, and you can follow our channel on the fediverse at: https://neat.tube/c/privacyguides/videos
Privacy Guides is a nonprofit project dedicated to promoting privacy, best cybersecurity practices, and digital rights. As a part of MAGIC Grants, a 501(c)(3) public charity, your donation to support our cause may be tax deductible.
🎬 Credits
Host: Jordan Warne
Host: Kevin Pham
Producer: Jordan Warne
Researcher: Kevin Pham
#twip #privacy #livestream
1 hr 45 min
January 10 Data Brokers Leak Location Data of Top EU Officials?｜This Week in Privacy #26 (Nov 7, 2025)
EU officials' location data is up for sale, the United States declines to join the UN Cybercrime treaty, Chrome can now autofill your passport and drivers license, Tinder is scanning user's camera rolls with AI to get to know them better, and much more. Join us for This Week In Privacy #26!
Timestamps:
0:00 Start of livestream
0:03 Intro
0:21 Start of podcast
1:39 Site updates
5:52 EU officials’ location data is for sale, report says
21:08 US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty
38:52 Chrome can now autofill your passport, driver’s licence, and vehicle registration info
52:16 Tinder to use AI to get to know users, tap into their Camera Roll photos
1:04:49 Q&A
1:38:07 Outro
Please 👍 like and 🔔 subscribe to our channel to support our work and find out about our latest video content!
❤️ Support our work: https://www.privacyguides.org/#/portal/
💬 Join the community: https://discuss.privacyguides.net
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Copyright ©️ 2025 Privacy Guides. This video is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International license.
YouTube is known for silent censorship and general privacy malfeasance. If you want to discuss this video you can do so on our forum at https://discuss.privacyguides.net in addition to commenting here, and you can follow our channel on the fediverse at: https://neat.tube/c/privacyguides/videos
Privacy Guides is a nonprofit project dedicated to promoting privacy, best cybersecurity practices, and digital rights. As a part of MAGIC Grants, a 501(c)(3) public charity, your donation to support our cause may be tax deductible.
🎬 Credits
Host: Jonah Aragon
Host: Kevin Pham
Producer: Jonah Aragon
Researcher: Kevin Pham
#twip #privacy #livestream
1 hr 41 min
January 10 Your Face is in Their Database. Now They Might Go to Jail.｜This Week in Privacy #25 (Oct 31, 2025)
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, and much more. Join us for This Week In Privacy #25!
Timestamps:
0:00 Starting soon
5:42 Intro
6:04 Start of podcast
7:10 Site updates
12:58 NOYB brings criminal complaint against facial recognition company Clearview AI
18:21 Ads are likely coming to Apple Maps in 2026
29:38 Danish Presidency backs away from ‘chat control’
39:57 After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prover her own innocence
49:07 Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS
55:35 SMSPool updates ToS to require more data for certain services
1:01:28 Affinity’s free forever relaunch, is it private?
1:09:59 Q&A
1:15:28 Outro
Please 👍 like and 🔔 subscribe to our channel to support our work and find out about our latest video content!
❤️ Support our work: https://www.privacyguides.org/#/portal/
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Copyright ©️ 2025 Privacy Guides. This video is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International license.
YouTube is known for silent censorship and general privacy malfeasance. If you want to discuss this video you can do so on our forum at https://discuss.privacyguides.net in addition to commenting here, and you can follow our channel on the fediverse at: https://neat.tube/c/privacyguides/videos
Privacy Guides is a nonprofit project dedicated to promoting privacy, best cybersecurity practices, and digital rights. As a part of MAGIC Grants, a 501(c)(3) public charity, your donation to support our cause may be tax deductible.
🎬 Credits
Host: Jonah Aragon
Host: Jordan Warne
Producer: Jordan Warne
Researcher: Kevin Pham
#twip #privacy #livestream
1 hr 19 min
January 10 OpenAI's Creepy All-Seeing Browser｜This Week in Privacy #24 (Oct 25, 2025)
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!
Timestamps:
0:00 Stream starting
3:18 Stream intro
4:31 Site updates
8:24 OpenAI Atlas Web Browser Is Creepy
23:18 Tor Browser Rejects AI changes from Firefox
33:01 Amazon Web Services Outage
48:10 How The AWS Outage Shows Weakness of Centralized Apps
51:47 Wisconsin Is Trying To Block VPNs With New Age Verification Bill
1:00:52 Apple Removes Tea & TeaOnHer Apps from Appstore
1:06:22 Q&A
1:40:31 Is F-Droid Actually a Safe Source for Apps
1:45:59 F-Droid Marks Religious Books as NSFW
1:51:30 Outro
Please 👍 like and 🔔 subscribe to our channel to support our work and find out about our latest video content!
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Copyright ©️ 2025 Privacy Guides. This video is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International license.
YouTube is known for silent censorship and general privacy malfeasance. If you want to discuss this video you can do so on our forum at https://discuss.privacyguides.net in addition to commenting here, and you can follow our channel on the fediverse at: https://neat.tube/c/privacyguides/videos
Privacy Guides is a nonprofit project dedicated to promoting privacy, best cybersecurity practices, and digital rights. As a part of MAGIC Grants, a 501(c)(3) public charity, your donation to support our cause may be tax deductible.
🎬 Credits
Host: Jonah Aragon
Host: Jordan Warne
Producer: Jordan Warne
Researcher: Kevin Pham
#twip #privacy #livestream
1 hr 55 min
January 10 The End of Windows Local Accounts?｜This Week in Privacy #22 (Oct 10, 2025)
Welcome to Episode 22 of This Week in Privacy.
Microsoft is closing more of the Windows 11 local account bypasses. Discord has leaked all their support tickets, including people’s age verification identity documents. Chat control has been defeated for now, and much more. Join us for This Week In Privacy #22!
Timestamps:
0:00 Start of livestream
0:21 Intro
1:26 Site updates
4:12 Microsoft makes online accounts mandatory in Windows 11
15:51 Chat control is defeated (for now)
26:41 Discord leaks user ID photos of 70,000 users
39:05 Spyware maker NSO Group acquisition by US investors
49:13 Forum post discussion: Switching from Windows to Linux
1:04:02 Off-topic: Kevin switched to Linux
1:09:22 Q&A
1:42:42 Outro
Please 👍 like and 🔔 subscribe to our channel to support our work and find out about our latest video content!
❤️ Support our work: https://www.privacyguides.org/#/portal/
💬 Join the community: https://discuss.privacyguides.net
🏡 Visit our website: https://www.privacyguides.org
Have a question, comment, or tip for us? You can securely reach us on Signal at @privacyguides.01 https://www.privacyguides.org/en/about/
Copyright ©️ 2025 Privacy Guides. This video is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International license.
YouTube is known for silent censorship and general privacy malfeasance. If you want to discuss this video you can do so on our forum at https://discuss.privacyguides.net in addition to commenting here, and you can follow our channel on the fediverse at: https://neat.tube/c/privacyguides/videos
Privacy Guides is a nonprofit project dedicated to promoting privacy, best cybersecurity practices, and digital rights. As a part of MAGIC Grants, a 501(c)(3) public charity, your donation to support our cause may be tax deductible.
🎬 Credits
Host: Kevin Pham
Host: Jordan Warne
Producer: Jordan Warne
Researcher: Kevin Pham
#twip #privacy #livestream
1 hr 46 min

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