r/privacy is a subreddit with 1.6M members. The most common kinds of discussions are pain & anger and news, and the community frequently discusses privacy, app, looking for, looking, and worst, and they frequently recommend/review 2fa app, email provider, and search engine.
Privacy in the digital age (this is not a SECURITY subreddit, and PUBLIC data, closed source, etc is off-topic)
Popular Themes in r/privacy
#1
Pain & Anger
: "Flock CEO Apologizes For Calling Activists ‘Terrorists’. As a movement against $8.3 billion Flock Safety’s license plate readers gathers momentum, company CEO Garrett Langley tells Forbes he shouldn’t have called non-violent activists “terroristic” organizations."
17 posts
#2
News
: "The EU Parliament rejected mass scanning of private messages in March. Yesterday, it approved an urgent procedure to revive the measure, setting up a decisive vote on Thursday, the last sitting day before summer recess."
17 posts
#3
Advice Requests
: "If you ever want to have privacy again, you’ve got to get politically active. Whatever that means to you."
14 posts
#4
Solution Requests
: "We have less than a day before the vote on CHAT CONTROL, please go on https://fightchatcontrol.eu/"
9 posts
Popular Topics in r/privacy
#1
Privacy
: "Privacy bouanderies a red flag?"
48 posts
#2
App
47 posts
#3
Looking For
44 posts
#4
Looking
44 posts
#5
Worst
17 posts
#6
Tracking
: "The Future for License Plate Readers After the Supreme Court's Big 4th Amendment Decision (July 8, 1 p.m. EDT)"
12 posts
#7
Tool
12 posts
#8
Hate
11 posts
#9
Secure
11 posts
#10
Tired
9 posts
Products Discussed in r/privacy
2fa App
75 reviews
#1
Aegis
5.0★ from 21 reviews
#2
Bitwarden
4.2★ from 9 reviews
#3
Ente
4.6★ from 9 reviews
Email Provider
36 reviews
#1
Protonmail
4.4★ from 7 reviews
#2
Proton
4.0★ from 5 reviews
#3
Tutanota
4.0★ from 4 reviews
Search Engine
35 reviews
#1
Kagi
4.9★ from 10 reviews
#2
Brave
4.0★ from 10 reviews
#3
DuckDuckGo
3.5★ from 4 reviews
Flair Used in r/privacy
#1
news
: "Reframing smart glasses as 'pervert glasses'"
53 posts
#2
discussion
: "FedEx now requires scanning a valid ID to ship packages"
49 posts
#3
question
: "The EU banned facial recognition in public spaces. My California county installed 400+ cameras last year. Is the Atlantic privacy gap now unbridgeable?"
36 posts
#4
age verification
: "New EU report details age verification plans and ID requirements for accessing the internet"
28 posts
#5
chat control
: "Chat Control 1.0 passes"
18 posts
#6
software
: "Microsoft Confirms Windows GDID Device Identifier That Cannot Be Disabled, Documented in FBI Case Filing"
5 posts
#7
guide
: "The flock cameras on your street are governed by a government contract most people don't know they can request. Here's what contracts obtained in other cities have revealed about billing, data retention, and federal access."
5 posts
#8
hardware
: "KARR security alarms installed on 2,000,000 US vehicles vulnerable to vehicle takeover"
4 posts
#9
data breach
: "A Puerto Rico Government Agency Exposed 1 Million Social Security Numbers"
1 post
#10
eli5
: "Using apples face Id?"
1 post
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Yearly
+154k members(10.3%)
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Last updated: July 25, 2026