Nate is a member of Privacy Guides' video and news team. He has been advocating for privacy on his own website The New Oil since 2018, and is the former host of Surveillance Report, a popular cybersecurity podcast he published with Techlore.
Believe it or not, there’s a lot of parallels between being healthy and privacy. Both seem simple on the surface but get complicated fast. Yet, both are achievable. So what can the health journey teach us about the privacy journey?
From cryptocurrency to healthcare, 2026 seems set to bring us more of the same breaches.
Illustrating the importance of threat models
WIRED, crypto, and 2026's first candidate for "cascading data breach"
The Aflac breach affected 22.6 million customers. And this was a slow week.
The Texas Attorney General has launched a lawsuit against five major smart TV manufacturers - Sony, Samsung, LG, Hisense, and TCL - over their use of Automated Content Recognition, or ACR.
Data breaches at Hama Film, Home Depot, 700Credit, PornHub, Askul, SoundCloud, University of Sydney, plus an update on last week's Coupang data breach.
This week, Google announced they would be shutting down their "Dark Web Report" tool, stating "it didn't provide helpful next steps." This was a separate offering from Google's "Results About You" service sometimes recommended to help stop data brokers leaking your info.
Nate Bartram sat down with technology journalist Taylor Lorenz to decipher the slate of bills being fast-tracked through Congress which threaten free speech, privacy, and your right to freely access information on the internet.
Data breaches galore this week from Petco, AI startups, healthcare providers, and other organizations.
This Week in Privacy #30
Session, a popular encrypted messenger app in the privacy community, today announced several major updates, including one correcting one of their most common and serious criticisms.
A cyberattack forced Crisis24 to decommission parts of CodeRED, an emergency notification system used widely across the US by governments, police, and fire agencies.
Dartmouth, a private Ivy League university in New England, has disclosed a data breach.
Malicious Blender files uploaded to third-party download sites have turned out to contain infostealer malware.
