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Much like the right to interracial marriage, woman's suffrage, freedom of speech, and many others, our right to privacy hasn't always been upheld. In einigen Diktaturen ist das immer noch der Fall. Generations before ours fought for our right to privacy. ==Privacy is a human right, inherent to all of us,== that we are entitled to (without discrimination).
You shouldn't confuse privacy with secrecy. We know what happens in the bathroom, but you still close the door. That's because you want privacy, not secrecy. **Everyone** has something to protect. Privacy is something that makes us human.
Trying to protect all your data from everyone all the time is impractical, expensive, and exhausting. Aber keine Sorge! Sicherheit ist ein Prozess, und durch vorausschauendes denken, kannst du einen Plan erstellen, der für dich geeignet ist. Security isn't just about the *privacy tools* you use or the software you download. Vielmehr geht es darum, die einzigartigen Bedrohungen zu verstehen, mit denen du konfrontiert bist, und herauszufinden, wie diese entschärft werden können.
==This process of identifying threats and defining countermeasures is called **threat modeling**==, and it forms the basis of every good security and privacy plan.
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## Trustworthy Privacy Software Reviews
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**Privacy Guides** has a dedicated [community](https://discuss.privacyguides.net) independently reviewing various *privacy tools* and services. Each of our recommendations comply with a strict set of criteria to ensure they provide the most value to most people, and provide the best balance of privacy, security, and convenience. As part of a non-profit **public charity**, Privacy Guides has strict **journalistic standards** and policies to ensure our recommendations are free of conflict of interest, and we do not partner with providers or affiliate programs that could sway our reviews and recommendations.
Proton Mail ist ein E-Mail-Dienst mit dem Schwerpunkt auf Datenschutz, Verschlüsselung, Sicherheit und Benutzerfreundlichkeit. Sie sind seit 2013 in Betrieb. Die Proton AG hat ihren Sitz in Genf, Schweiz. Der Proton Mail Free Tarif beinhaltet 500 MB Mailspeicher, den du kostenlos auf bis zu 1 GB erweitern kannst.
Mailbox.org ist ein E-Mail-Dienst, mit dem Ziel sicher und werbefrei zu sein und der mit 100 % Ökostrom betrieben wird. Er wird seit 2014 betrieben. Mailbox.org hat seinen Sitz in Berlin, Deutschland. Konten beginnen mit 2 GB Speicherplatz, der nach Bedarf erweitert werden kann.
Tuta (ehemals *Tutanota*) ist ein E-Mail-Dienst mit einem Fokus auf Sicherheit und Privatsphäre durch Verschlüsselung. Tuta ist seit 2011 in Betrieb und hat seinen Sitz in Hannover, Deutschland. Kostenlose Konten beginnen mit 1 GB Speicherplatz.
Established in 2021 due to the difficulty of finding unbiased reviewers in the VPN and privacy space, **Privacy Guides** is the most popular, trustworthy, non-profit website that provides information about protecting your *personal* data security and privacy. Our crowdsourced recommendations and reviews of **privacy tools** and our community dedicated to helping others set us apart from other blogs and content creators. The team behind this project has been researching privacy and security in the open-source space for over 5 years, originally with a now-defunct web resource that eventually became the *Privacy Guides* millions of readers trust.
*Our website is free of advertisements and not affiliated with any of the listed providers.*
As seen in **WIRED**, **Tweakers.net**, **The New York Times**, and many other publications as a reliable source for privacy and security knowledge.
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We recommend a wide variety of **privacy tools** (a.k.a. *privacy apps*, *privacy utilities*, *privacy software*) spanning software and hardware that you can adopt to improve your privacy. Many of the tools we recommend are completely free to use and open-source software, while some are commercial services available for purchase. Switching from mainstream data-hungry software like Google Chrome and Windows to privacy-focused tools like [Brave](desktop-browsers.md#brave) and [Linux](desktop.md) can go a long way towards controlling the information you share with companies and others.
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## Why does privacy matter?
In the modern age of digital data exploitation, your privacy has never been more critical, yet many believe it is already a lost cause. Das ist es nicht. ==Your privacy is up for grabs, and you need to care about it.== Privacy is about power, and it is so important that this power ends up in the right hands.
Many people get the concepts of privacy, security, and anonymity confused. Es gibt Leute, die verschiedene Produkte als "nicht privat" kritisieren, obwohl sie in Wirklichkeit meinen, dass sie beispielsweise keine Anonymität bieten. Auf dieser Website befassen wir uns mit allen drei Themen, aber es ist wichtig, dass du den Unterschied zwischen ihnen verstehst und weißt, wann es um welches der drei Themen geht.
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