All of these news feeds, websites and blogs are what I regularly consult for news related to privacy, cybersecurity, surveillance and the state of 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 great coverage of digital politics, cybersecurity and privacy.
Euractiv | Technology - Euractiv’s technology section offers the most breaking and current news surounding digital politics and policy 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”.
Civil Society
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.
International Association of Privacy Professionals - Up to date news on the latest policy and legal developments in the fields of data protection, privacy, cybersecurity and AI governance.
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.
Regulators & State Agencies
European Data Protection Board - Updates from the European Union’s Data Protection Board. This is the regulatory agency that oversees the consistent application and enforcement of data protection law across the European Economic Area.
European Data Protection Supervisor - Updates from the European Union’s Data Protection Supervisor. This agency is responsible for ensuring that European Union institutions comply with data protection law.
UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy - In 2015, the Human Rights Council created the first mandate on privacy. It requested the Special Rapporteur to seek credible and reliable information from Governments, non-governmental organisations and any other parties who have knowledge of situations and cases relating to privacy.
EU Commission Press Releases on Digital Matters - Press releases from the EU Commission regarding AI, cybersecurity, justice, disinformation and digital society.
UK Information Commissioner’s Office - News, blogs and speeches from the UK’s data protection body.
Blogs
Schneier on Security - An amazing blog from one of the worlds leading cybersecurity experts.
The Proton Blog - The blog from the non-profit 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!