Content Creators and People to Follow

YouTube

  • The Hated One - One of the best YouTube content creators when it comes to privacy, digital politics and institutional critique of digital power.
  • NBTV - A great channel from a non-profit that offers engaging and easy to understand guides and analysis videos about privacy and security.
  • Mental Outlaw - A comedic tech YouTuber who focuses mainly on privacy, cybersecurity and digital rights news.
  • The Linux Experiment - A great channel that offers news, guides and insights into the Linux operating system.
  • Eric Murphy - A great channel with many key insights into privacy.
  • Louis Rossman - A man who wakes up every morning fighting Big Tech. Mainly focuses on the right to repair but does occasionally cover privacy and security related matters.
  • Simon Caine - A smaller channel that I follow that covers privacy news.
  • Techlore - One of the big ones when it comes to privacy on YouTube.
  • Jack Rhysider - Channel of the Darknet Dairies Podcast.
  • Side of Burritos- Channel that mainly offers GrapheneOS guides.

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  • Edward Snowden - Need I say more?
  • Meredith Whittaker - Meredith is the current President of Signal - the E2EE secure and private messaging application.
  • Mathew Green - Security researcher at John Hopkins.
  • GrapheneOS - Official X account of the GrapheneOS project, created by the Graphene non-profit foundation.
  • Patrick Breyer - Account of Dr. Patrick Breyer, Member of European Parliament for the Pirate Party and one of the EU’s most influential digital rights activists.
  • Most if not all sources within this resources section should have X accounts or alternative social media that you can follow.

Podcasts

  • Darknet Dairies - A podcast about hackers, breaches, shadow government activity, hacktivism, cybercrime, and all the things that dwell on the hidden parts of the network.
  • Surveillance Report from Techlore - Weekly security and privacy news.
  • Closed Network Privacy Podcast - A privacy and security podcast focused on the everyday person and using simple tools and techniques to become a smaller target for online attacks.
  • EFF - How to Fix the Internet - EFF’s How to Fix the Internet podcast offers a better way forward. Through curious conversations with some of the leading minds in law and technology, it explores creative solutions to some of today’s biggest tech challenges.

Forums

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