All of these news feeds, websites and blogs are what I regularly consult for news related to privacy, cyber-security and our digital world.

News Media

  • Netzpolitik.org - A German and English news website focusing on digital politics and digital rights.

  • Der Standart | Netzpolitik - An Austrian newspaper of record that has surprisingly great coverage of digital politics, cybersecurity and privacy.

  • Euractiv | Technology - Euractiv’s technology section offers the most breaking and current news surounding digital politics in the European Union.

  • WIRED | Security - A news site focusing on all things tech. The security section of the website is a good read.

  • The Guardian - The Guardian has good coverage of privacy and related topics within its surveillance, privacy and tech sections. This is the newspaper that first broke the Snowden leaks.

  • The Verge - This news website has decent coverage of security related news on its security section.

  • TechCrunch - This news site has decent coverage of privacy related news on the site’s privacy section.

  • The Markup - “Data-driven investigations of tech and how it influences society”.

Non-profits, NGOs and Activist Organizations

  • Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Deeplinks Blog - The EFF is a US focused Digital Rights group that has been fighting for digital rights for more than three decades.

  • Electronic Privacy Information Center - Another US focused digital rights group that puts out phenomenal analysis.

  • European Digital Rights - A European digital rights collective of NGO’s, academics and experts.

  • Big Brother Watch - A UK focused digital rights and civil liberties organization that does a lot of good work.

  • Bits of Freedom - A Dutch digital rights organization.

  • NOYB (None of Your Business) - A European Union consumer privacy advocacy NGO that selectively brings cases to court to hold companies to account for EU legislation (GDPR, DSA, DMA, e-Privacy) violations. They have essentially become a de facto Union wide data protection authority that is independent and committed to protecting consumer digital rights.

  • Chaos Computer Club - A German hacker association providing information about technical and societal issues, such as surveillance, privacy, freedom of information, hacktivism, data security and many other interesting things around technology and hacking issues.

Blogs

  • Schneier on Security - An amazing blog from one of the worlds leading cybersecurity experts.

  • The Proton Blog - The blog from the Swiss privacy-first Google competitor and ecosystem provider Proton.

  • The Tutanota Blog - The blog from the German privacy respecting mail provider Tuta.

  • The Mullvad Blog - The blog from the privacy respecting Swedish VPN provider Mullvad.

  • Privsec.dev - A simple blog from a group of security researchers and privacy enthusiasts.

  • This website of course!