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@Privacy_Guides
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284subscribers
+3 since we began measuring on 8 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1002233319257 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @Privacy_Guides |
| Created | Between 1 June 2024 and 30 September 2024 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 16 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 7 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 16 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/Privacy_Guides |
Technology — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 23 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 99% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Sept 2026, 21:02 | 284 | +1 |
| 8 Sept 2026, 04:18 | 283 | +1 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 10:37 | 282 | +1 |
| 23 Aug 2026, 15:36 | 281 | -3 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 01:55 | 284 | +3 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 08:32 | 281 | no change |
| 8 Aug 2026, 03:45 | 281 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 29 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 7 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
2 reactions across 2 posts, in 1 kind.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 2 | 100.0% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 2 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 2 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 29 July 2026 to 7 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
@fria posted a new discussion: 18-Year-Old Linux Kernel Bug Allows Full System Takeover Researchers at Tencent Zhuque Lab uncovered an 18-year-old vulnerability in the Linux kernel that can escape containers and gain full root privileges on the host system. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/08/07/18-year-old-linux-kernel-bug-allows-full-system-tak…
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@RandomRandomly posted a new discussion: The Verge: Now you can securely link multiple phones to one Signal account You can link more devices with one phone number on Signal now, including an Android phone or iPhone. Signal already supported linking PCs and iPads, but not additional phones. When you link a device on Signal, you can check and respond to new messages across all of your linked devices. You can also cho…
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@nateb (Nathan Bartram) posted a new discussion: Data Breach Roundup (July 31 - August 6, 2026) This impacted the UK's Police National Legal Database (PNLD) and exposed full names, organizations, and email addresses of police officers, staff, criminal justice professionals, and government partners. The names and email address of "Ask the Police" users who submitted questions are also believed to be compromised. Thi…
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@maqp (Markus Ottela) posted a new discussion: A new paper by Daniel Simon might indicate lattice based crypto (ML-KEM etc) breaks with quantum computers The paper in question: The author also developed Simon’s algorithm that inspired the Shor’s algorithm. The paper hasn’t been peer-reviewed yet. There’s some analysis by Marin Ivenzic Simon Claims Polynomial-Time DCP Quantum Algorithm Also a Reddit thread.
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@fria posted a new discussion: Spectre is Back: CPU Mitigations Found to Be Ineffective Researchers found a way to bypass the latest Spectre mitigations and exploit AMD and Intel processors to leak secrets like passwords and encryption keys. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/08/07/spectre-is-back-cpu-mitigations-found-to-be-ineffective/
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@nateb (Nathan Bartram) posted a new discussion: North Korean Hackers Breached Over 1,600 Organizations Worldwide Greek cybersecurity researcher Vangelis Stykas revealed at the Black Hat security conference that he discovered evidence that 1,640 companies across 57 countries have been compromised by North Korean hacking operations. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.privacygu…
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@blap posted a new discussion: EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation “Hardware-bound attestation is a requirement of this project, not an implementation detail we can simply drop,” a maintainer responded. The project invited alternative architectural proposals and said a dedicated security review and threat model would be published soon.I swear to god the EU always does this kind bs. Here …
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@nateb (Nathan Bartram) posted a new discussion: Data Breach Roundup (July 24 - 30, 2026) OnTrac is an American delivery company that operates in 35 states, covering roughly 70% of the US population. This breach took place in March. The article referenced notification letters but didn't share how many people or what data was impacted. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.privac…
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@fria posted a new discussion: Apple's Private Relay Leaks Your Real IP Address in Safari App developer/security researchers at Mysk discovered several leaks in Apple's Private Relay and all other browser proxies that allow websites to see your real IP address. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/08/05/apples-private-relay-leaks-your-real-ip-address…
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@No_Name posted a new discussion: Proton seems to be working on its own web browser
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@blap posted a new discussion: Online advertising giant Adform was hacked Online ads provider Adform was hacked. On July 27, the company began serving ads containing malicious code. The company says in its latest annual report that its serves 1.5 billion ads to people’s devices daily. According to security researcher Kevin Beaumont, who first revealed the incident, some of the code that Adform used to load its ads o…
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@shadowwwind posted a new discussion: WebKit's handling of passkeys can cause iCloud Private Relay to leak your device's real IP address. The same behaviour affects all iOS browsers
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Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @Privacy_Guides. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
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Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
Names
Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
3 URLs this entry has put in its own public description, shown exactly as written there. A declaration, not a verified association — we measured that the description contained this text, and nothing more. It is not a claim that this entry owns, runs or is connected to whatever the link resolves to; a description is text anyone controls, and anyone can put anyone else’s URL into it. How this is measured.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 16 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Privacy Guides” (@Privacy_Guides), 284 subscribers as measured 16 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/Privacy_Guides.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.