With @Niek-de-Wilde I worked on establishing a partnership with the renowned Dutch privacy NGO Bits of Freedom.
We have provided our insights to improve and update the recommendations on fixjeprivacy.nl. With partnerships like here with Bits of Freedom we hope to bring forward the recommendations of our community to a wider audience.
Press releases:
Great work guys!
Very cool!
Excuse me if this is somewhere obvious and I didn’t notice but is there a partnership section on the website to see what other partnerships PG has and links to those partners?
Yay for more consistent awareness! EU needs it as it tries different shenanigans risking privacy & security for all.
Glad to see this partnership come to fruition!
Hm, we do not have it, but that may not even be a bad idea. This would give folks a nice overview of our current relations and give them a neat extra spotlight. I’ll bounce this idea internally.
I assume the information exchange will be bidirectional correct? It would be interesting to cross link discussions between the sites. Also with auto translate features in Discourse, I imagine it should be easy to facilitate conversions where everyone can convey their ideas in their native tongue and that get translated to the readers preferred language (though still erring on using English if you’re fluent since most translation libraries do better with English for now).
I also think it would be cool to manage recommendations and their translations under a single repo that can be versioned and forked. Bits of Freedom and other communities could join in community debates and largely provide accurate translations to Dutch when consensus is reached so both recommendations and translations stay in sync. It can also allow country or community specific recommendations if the recommendations target a specific audience where threat models are more defined and those diffs can be more clearly maintained on a fork that is used by the partner community.
Just so you know this is the shirt I’m wearing today.
awesome. In my head I had something like the Mullvad partnership page in mind.
agree with the shirt !
project in gear ? …
Is this blog a response to this post about recommending non-US services?
By partnering with Bits of Freedom, are we saying that Dutch-speaking peoples or people living in geographically Dutch locations should be referred to that website?
@jonah says in that post somewhere:
Is this the team’s way of saying that Privacy Guides is US only? What’s the current stance on this?
I think you’re trying to infer more than what’s needed. It doesn’t necessarily or inherently mean anything. Its just a partnership to support another similar entity in the EU. Why does there need to be a particular stance anyway?
Bur sure, I don’t want to speak for Jonah so he can clarify if he wants.
I’m not inferring anything.. I’m asking a question to the team.
Because it was brought up as a site development change, as evident from the post I linked. It dictates what kinds of tools and services the team wants the website to focus on recommending. Since that discussion was left unresolved, and since this post is somewhat relevant to that discussion, I am asking whether or not this post resolves that older post.
No, its not a response to any of that, its just us helping out a fellow privacy organisation. 
In fact at the time of that discussion we were already in talks with Bits of Freedom for a while.
PG will definitely stay a globally oriented.
This is amazing! Excellent work! 
It’s great that you are collaborating with Bits of Freedom.
I live in the Netherlands myself.
Big Tech doesn’t care about a few small fines, so the more you work together to protect our privacy, the better. Only the fines need to be a lot higher.
I hope that more privacy foundations will join you.
