I try to be aware of my digital fingerprint on the Internet. Who owns the data I create and the data traces I leave.

I made a repository to share all the various alternatives to popular often centralized and free services that are available. And I wrote an article with some of my thoughts on the matter.

I use Hosts and Wipr for both mac & iOS to limit tracking.

And I have deep interest in Differential privacy and Homomorphic encryption.

Notes

• ​Facebook is not a private nor a secure platform for sharing sensitive information. Every character that you type into their text boxes is immediately parsed and sent to their servers, regardless of whether you actually complete a post and submit it.​

• Marketing most importantly is about establishing wants that you didn't have.

Links

• ​Security Checklist - Open source checklist of resources designed to improve your online privacy and security.

• ​Digital Privacy Tips​

• ​Hosts - Extending and consolidating hosts files from several well-curated sources.

• ​PI-HOLE - Network-wide ad blocking via your own Linux hardware. It doesn’t only hide ads, it blocks the connection between your network and the domains you blacklist completely. You set the IP of your Raspberry Pi running Pihole as your DNS server and that’s it. It comes preconfigured with a lot of blacklisted domains, but there are tons of lists you can add to block even more.

• ​Privacy Lab: Jay Freeman on "How to Get a Dystopia"​

• ​We are building a dystopia just to make people click on ads​

• ​Monologue of the Algorithm: how Facebook turns users data into its profit​

• ​Hosts - Extending and consolidating hosts files from several well-curated sources.

• ​blocklists - Shared lists of problem domains people may want to block with hosts files.

• ​Beyond The Clouds​

• ​A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Cookies​

• ​Why Zuckerberg’s 14-year apology tour hasn’t fixed Facebook​

• ​Against Facebook​

• ​Google embraces, extends, and extinguishes​

• ​Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras​

• ​Keynote address from Tim Cook, CEO, Apple Inc (2018)​

• ​HN: How Facebook tracks you on Android (2018)​

• ​Facebook’s Privacy Cake (2019)​

• ​The New Wilderness (2019)​

• ​Getting my personal data out of Facebook - I left Facebook, and all I got was this lousy legalese.

• ​Bitcoin 2019: A Conversation with Edward Snowden​

• ​Differential Privacy by Google - Contains a C++ library of ε-differentially private algorithms, which can be used to produce aggregate statistics over numeric data sets containing private or sensitive information.

• ​Privatar - Unlock the advantage of data-driven insights while ensuring data privacy.

• ​How China Tracks Everyone | VICE on HBO (2019)​

• ​Cutting Google out of your life​

• ​Local-first software - You own your data, in spite of the cloud.

• ​The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It (2020) (Tweet)

• ​Am I Unique? - Aims at studying the diversity of browser fingerprints and providing developers with data to help them design good defenses. (HN)

• ​Bromite - Chromium plus ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser.

• ​How do you talk to "I have nothing to hide" people? (2020)​