Note: Read about improvements to this technology in recent blog posts about Intelligent Tracking Prevention, and the Storage Access API.
How to Track the People Tracking YOU
Location, Sensors, Voice, Photos?! Spotify Just Got Real Creepy With The Data It Collects On You
Spotify has updated its privacy policy, and users should be careful about what they agree to. The music streaming giant now wants phone sensor information to determine if users are moving or standing still, GPS location, photos, contacts and much more.
rowanpaulflynn.dev/opnshelf
[READ-ONLY] Mirror of https://github.com/Rowan-Paul/opnshelf. A personal media tracker built on the AT Protocol
10 Tips to Avoid Leaving Tracks Around the Internet (Published 2019)
Some of these suggestions are more aggressive, and make using the web less convenient, but they’ll definitely protect your privacy.
Limit - Social Bookmarks (@limitapp.bsky.social)
A purposefully constrained Bluesky client for #ios. It remembers your position in the timeline. #AI features - AI timeline, AI post explanation, AI article summarization App store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/limit/id6748037680 And it’s open source.
Baffle Web Trackers By Obfuscating Your Online Activities
Software that spits out misinformation about what you're actually doing on the web is a fascinating development in our relationship to online surveillance.
Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection - CITP Blog
By Jonathan Mayer and Arvind Narayanan. Blocking cookies is bad for privacy. That’s the new disingenuous argument from Google, trying to justify why Chrome is so far behind Safari and Firefox in offering privacy protections. As researchers who have spent over a decade studying web tracking and online advertising, we want to set the record […]
We Need A Massive Surveillance Program (Idle Words)
I am a privacy activist who has been riding a variety of high horses about the dangers of permanent, ubiquitous data collection since 2012.
Permissioned Data Shapes: Notifications - Nick's Blog
A self-keyed space gives notifications a home you control: every app gets an append-only sink to write into, you pick the reader that turns them into pushes and emails, and allowing or revoking an app is an access control you already have.
bsky.app | WhoTracks.Me
Explore the tracking landscape of bsky.app on WhoTracks.Me, revealing the most common trackers like Sentry and their impact on privacy
FOSDEM 2025 - Human-Computer Counter-Choreographies
Human-Computer Counter-Choreographies is an artistic research project that combines critical design, choreography and embodied sense-making with data tracking. The project has evolved into various formats such as workshops, a live-coding performance piece, web-based tools and artworks. In this talk, Joana Chicau will introduce the motivations behind the project and how it has impacted audiences by raising awareness of data tracking. She will also demo a custom version of the open-source DuckDuckGo privacy extension which unveils online tracking algorithms through audio and visual feedback.
Mylio | Best Photo Organizer for a Lifetime of Memories. Apple, Windows, and Android
Mylio is the only photo manager where you can edit, organize, sync and protect a lifetime of photos and videos - keeping your files private on your devices.
Pinata | Autonomous File Storage
Add file uploads and retrieval in minutes so you can focus on your app —because you’ve got better things to code than infrastructure.
Taiwan's new 'electronic fence' for quarantines leads wave of virus monitoring
Taiwan, which has won global praise for its effective action against the coronavirus, is rolling out a mobile phone-based "electronic fence" that uses location-tracking to ensure people who are quarantined stay in their homes.
