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.

• ​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​

• ​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)

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

• ​Personal Security Checklist - Curated checklist of tips to protect your dgital security and privacy.

• ​The Case for Privacy Optimism (2020)​

• ​Energized Protection - block - Let's make an annoyance free, better open internet, altogether.

• ​Programming Framework for Differential Privacy with Accuracy Concentration Bounds (2019)​

• ​Honeycrisp: Large-scale Differentially Private Aggregation Without a Trusted Core​

• ​Taking control of your own data (2020)​

• ​We Chat, They Watch (2020) - How International Users Unwittingly Build up WeChat’s Chinese Censorship Apparatus. (HN)

• ​EFF - Leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world.

• ​Metomic - Privacy Tools for Developers.