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 - 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.

• ​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.

• ​How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices (2020)​

• ​Why Privacy Matters (2020) (HN)

• ​Nym - Developing the infrastructure to prevent this data leakage and provide people with strong internet privacy.

• ​Your Phone Is Your Castle (HN)

• ​Threat Models for Differential Privacy (2020)​

• ​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.

• ​HN: Stop the Earn IT Bill Before It Breaks Encryption (2020)​

• ​Purism - Beautiful, Secure, Privacy-Respecting Laptops & Phones.

• ​Purism – Fund Your App (HN)

• ​Steps For Better Online Privacy (2020) (HN)

• ​No More Google - Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google that don't track you. (HN)

• ​Productivity vs. Privacy (2020)​

• ​Your Computer Isn't Yours (2020) (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.

• ​The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity (Code)

• ​Awesome Privacy - List of free, open source and privacy respecting services.

• ​WhoTracks.me - Bringing Transparency to Online Tracking. (Code)

• ​What I Use Now Instead of Google (2021) (HN)

• ​Ask HN: Is it technically possible to evade big-tech censorship? (2021)​

• ​Data Security on Mobile Devices​

• ​The Hairdresser Analogy (2021) (HN)

• ​Moxie Marlinspike Has a Plan to Reclaim Our Privacy (2020)​

• ​We can do better than Signal (2021) (HN) (Lobsters)