Interview with Cape (Ruddy Wang, Head of Consumer), the supposed "privacy-first mobile carrier." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXGICVf3w3c https://redd.it/1uzy6yc @PrivacyGuides
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Channel
@PrivacyGuides
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Citations · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
1,082subscribers
+47 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
| Telegram ID | -1001522044747 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @PrivacyGuides |
| Created | Between 1 August 2021 and 28 February 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 16 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 12 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 2 times, most recently 16 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/PrivacyGuides |
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 19 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 93% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Sept 2026, 04:00 | 1,082 | +5 |
| 7 Sept 2026, 17:15 | 1,077 | +4 |
| 2 Sept 2026, 19:08 | 1,073 | +5 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 11:28 | 1,068 | +6 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 07:18 | 1,062 | +3 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 01:47 | 1,059 | +4 |
| 19 Aug 2026, 23:33 | 1,055 | +1 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 17:46 | 1,054 | +10 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 02:12 | 1,044 | +8 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 03:52 | 1,036 | +1 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 01:31 | 1,035 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 01:19 | 1,035 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 12 March 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 18 July 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
26 reactions across 8 posts, in 2 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 96.2% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 👍 | 25 | 96.2% | |
| 👎 | 1 | 3.85% |
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 9 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 26 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 12 March 2026 to 18 July 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.
Interview with Cape (Ruddy Wang, Head of Consumer), the supposed "privacy-first mobile carrier." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXGICVf3w3c https://redd.it/1uzy6yc @PrivacyGuides
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No Right to Remain Silent: Negative Rights in a Positive-Rights World https://www.privacyguides.org/posts/2026/06/01/no-right-to-remain-silent-negative-rights-in-a-positive-rights-world/ https://redd.it/1uw5kjj @PrivacyGuides
Help Defeat Censorship - How To Run A Signal Proxy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3u32i3tkiw https://redd.it/1tk60gk @PrivacyGuides
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From Content Creator to Policymaker: Stopping Mass Surveillance w/ Naomi Brockwell (Interview) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Vb3hTxdP4 https://redd.it/1tfbiuw @PrivacyGuides
The eye in your pocket https://aeon.co/essays/things-have-jobs-and-digital-devices-are-made-to-track-you https://redd.it/1t83c8d @PrivacyGuides
Interview with Carissa Véliz, Oxford AI Ethics Professor & author of "Privacy is Power" - We discuss her latest book "Prophecy," how predictive AI trained on your data makes a meritocracy impossible, the detriments of surveillance pricing, and the importance of preserving your digital privacy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E00mNfH75qM https://redd.it/1sskmri @PrivacyGuides
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Interview with EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn: "I like to win." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PFv0ki3nDc https://redd.it/1sjm37n @PrivacyGuides
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A lot of people have complained to me about Visionary lacking features, but the Proton community itself doesn’t seem to care. Is this a real problem, or a vocal minority? /r/ProtonMail/comments/1s9xfjy/visionary_plan_lacking_sentinel_for_organizations/ https://redd.it/1scs0bz @PrivacyGuides
Technology Has Consequences: How SXSW 2007 Changed The World | Privacy Guides @ EFF-Austin https://youtu.be/mMXrabHeZF0 https://redd.it/1s0do1g @PrivacyGuides
How To Improve Your Privacy and Security on Mastodon https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/07/22/mastodon-tutorial-privacy-and-security/ https://redd.it/1rs9dh2 @PrivacyGuides
Navigating Social Circles and Mental Health https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/navigating-social-circles-and-mental-health/35937 https://redd.it/1rt1g6h @PrivacyGuides
Paste.ente.io - Private E2EE Pastebin by Ente https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/paste-ente-io-private-e2ee-pastebin-by-ente/35901 https://redd.it/1rsmx1h @PrivacyGuides
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @PrivacyGuides. 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.
Named by 8 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
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.
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
This channel appears in 1 seed channel's Telegram-generated recommendation list in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see 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 12 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Privacy Guides – Tools and Resources for Protecting Your Data” (@PrivacyGuides), 1,082 subscribers as measured 12 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/PrivacyGuides.
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.