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.
Marketing most importantly is about establishing wants that you didn't have.
Security Checklist - Open source checklist of resources designed to improve your online privacy and security.
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.
Getting my personal data out of Facebook - I left Facebook, and all I got was this lousy legalese.
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.
Cutting Google out of your life - Huge list of alternatives to Google products. Privacy tips, tricks, and links. (HN)
Local-first software - You own your data, in spite of the cloud.
Am I Unique? - Aims at studying the diversity of browser fingerprints and providing developers with data to help them design good defenses. (HN)
Personal Security Checklist - Curated checklist of tips to protect your dgital security and privacy.
Energized Protection - block - Let's make an annoyance free, better open internet, altogether.
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.
Nym - Developing the infrastructure to prevent this data leakage and provide people with strong internet privacy.
Sekreta - Universal internet-anonymity API with privacy-enhancing subsystem.
Kovri - Free, decentralized, anonymity technology based on I2P's open specifications.
Mute - Privacy enhancing communication system.
Purism - Beautiful, Secure, Privacy-Respecting Laptops & Phones.
No More Google - Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google that don't track you. (HN)
Electronic Frontier Foundation - Defending your rights in the digital world.
The magic of Gaussian noise (2020) - Part of a series on differential privacy.
Amnesia - Data anonymization made easy.
Awesome Privacy - List of free, open source and privacy respecting services.
WhoTracks.me - Bringing Transparency to Online Tracking. (Code)