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Privacy: the foundation of all other human rights

Don't think you need privacy, huh? Think again.

Privacy protects our freedom to be who we are. It stops people from using our personal information in ways we don't want. It stops bad actors from hurting us or the ones we love. Without privacy, we have no control over our lives.

Essential reads about the importance of privacy

• The Eternal Value of Privacy
• Why Privacy Matters
• Privacy Matters
• Why Does Privacy Matter? One Scholar's Answer
• 10 Reasons Why Privacy Matters
• Privacy and why it matters

Need proof? Here's an ever-growing list of situations where a lack of privacy has real-life consequences

1. UK woman mistaken as shoplifter by Facewatch, now she's banned from all stores with facial recognition tech
2. Data-Hungry Dating Apps Are Worse Than Ever for Your Privacy
3. Apple’s Photo Bug Exposes the Myth of ‘Deleted’
4. Meta-provided Facebook chats led a woman to plead guilty to abortion-related charges
5. WhatsApp Moderators Can Read Your Messages
6. iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes
7. Scammers are targeting teenage boys on social media—and driving some to suicide.
8. Google engineers want to introduce DRMs for web pages, making ad-blocking near-impossible in the browser
9. Zoom’s updated Terms of Service permit training AI on user content without Opt-Out
10. Maker of Chrome extension with 300,000+ users tells of constant pressure to sell out
11. Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies
12. Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are ‘as painful as possible’ for Firefox
13. How Evangelicals Use Digital Surveillance to Target the Unconverted
14. Masked protesters could soon face arrest, says Home Office
15. It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy
16. Google's new AI search results promotes sites pushing malware, scams
17. $5 billion Google lawsuit over ‘Incognito mode’ tracking moves a step closer to trial
18. Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit
19. European Court of Human Rights Confirms: Weakening Encryption Violates Fundamental Rights
20. Chromium Manifest V3 Explained for Toddlers
21. Dropbox is sharing users' files with OpenAI, here's how to opt out
22. Florida Man Sues G.M. and LexisNexis Over Sale of His Cadillac Data
23. Google will no longer hold onto people's location data in Google Maps — meaning it can't turn that info over to the police
24. Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All Internet Users
25. The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training
26. As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline
27. Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service
28. From its start, Gmail conditioned us to trade privacy for free services
29. Google agrees to destroy browsing data collected in Incognito mode
30. Revealed: Home Office secretly lobbied for facial recognition ‘spy’ company
31. Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads
32. 96% of US hospital websites share visitor info with Meta, Google, data brokers
33. Signal’s Meredith Whittaker scorns anti-encryption efforts as ‘parochial, magical thinking’
34. Chrome updates Incognito warning to admit Google tracks users in “private” mode
35. US House approves FISA renewal – warrantless surveillance and all
36. Scary AT&T breach leaks up to 70 million Social Security numbers to the dark web
37. Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent
38. Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says
39. Verizon Gave Her Data to a Stalker. ‘This Has Completely Changed My Life’
40. Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It
41. Fake Cisco Webex Google Ads abuse tracking templates to push malware
42. Stalker 'found Japanese singer through reflection in her eyes'
43. Colorado Supreme Court Upholds Keyword Search Warrant - a digital dragnet tool that allows law enforcement to identify everyone who searched the internet for a specific term or phrase.
44. They criticized Israel. This Twitter account upended their lives.
45. How Political Campaigns Use Your Data to Target You, and What You Can Do to Protect Your Privacy
46. To Address Online Harms, We Must Consider Privacy First
47. Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps