How do we pay for privacy?

Your privacy is under attack from several terrifying new laws

“If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.” — Philip Zimmermann, creator of PGP Last week the United Kingdom passed a new bill that allows for “extreme surveillance.” This Investigatory Powers Bill — better known as the “snooper’s char...

Research | Tiles Book

Progressive experiments exploring decentralized software technologies for privacy adoption at scale.

VaultGemma: The world's most capable differentially private LLM

Amer Sinha, Software Engineer, and Ryan McKenna, Research Scientist, Google Research

Private data: developing a rubric for success - Paul's Leaflets

What will an effective solution look like?

CAPSEM: Contextual Agent Privacy and Security Manager

Contribute to google/capsem development by creating an account on GitHub.

Gajesh on Twitter / X

TL;DRapple has turn on this switch for everyone to participate in decentralized inferenceppl can rent out their unused compute space and anyone can use this with privacy guarantees https://t.co/LTP4zyjsdt pic.twitter.com/8Dvo7XK8jJ— Gajesh (@gajesh) February 18, 2026

How Google is Making Private AI Practical with Homomorphic Encryption

Today we're excited to showcase HEIR, the latest powerful tool added to our Private Computing Toolkit. HEIR is an open source compiler that unlocks cryptographically-sec…

Introductions and kick off

Hello, I’m Simon Horrobin. I’m working on a couple of projects which are ATproto relevant… one to handle sport and health data, the other for managing publishing workflow. Both of these need privacy to varying degrees. I think about this in a few axes… who can create, view, edit, delete, grant, revoke, all over time and state.

Sharing GPL Code and Its Ethics | Tom McFarlin

“Sharing GPL Code” sounds like a loaded title because the topic is hot. But hang with me because this has nothing to do with actually arguing about the GPL.

Differential Privacy

A robust yet accessible introduction to the idea, history, and key applications of differential privacy—the gold standard of algorithmic privacy protection

Time for Net Giants to Pay Fairly for the Open Source on Which They Depend | Linux Journal

Licensing lies at the heart of open source. Arguably, free software began with the publication of the GNU GPL in 1989. And since then, open-source projects are defined as such by virtue of the licenses they adopt and whether the latter meet the Open Source Definition. The continuing importance of licensing is shown by the periodic flame wars that erupt in this area. Recently, there have been two such flarings of strong feelings, both of which raise important issues.

A Model for addressing privacy on ATproto

A proposal on how we can offer private data

Playing with Parlances - Permissioned Data & AT Protocol - AT-WayFinding

Community privacy is one of our top priorities at @transrights.northsky.social which isn't possible out of the box with any ATproto implementation today that doesn't just hide an entire PDS. We're developing in the open and so I've published a proposal on it, feedback as always is we

Privacy concerns with Google

Privacy concerns with Google include a wide range of issues and controversies related to collection, use, and sharing of user data across Google products, services, and platforms, including Google Search. Since the mid-2000s, civil liberties organizations and government regulators have criticized and taken action against Google related to Internet privacy issues in its data collection and data retention policies, web tracking practices, cooperation with intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies, and other activities. These concerns are a frequent theme in criticism of Google.