Privacy & Security
Privacy hygiene:
- Delete apps that spy.
- Never give more personal information than is required.
- Delete accounts when you're done using them. Remember to delete your info before closing
- Turn off devices as needed.
- Turn off location services always - only on when needed.
- Get rid of always-on home and mobile assistants.
- Stop using biometrics to unlock devices.
- Take off your Ring Doorbell and cameras.
- Use encrypted mail.
- Use a VPN
- Use cash
- Lock your SIM.
Privacy Protection Guides:
- De-Phoning - using your phone less to minimize harvestable data
- SSD.EFF.org - security self defense by the EFF
- OptOutProject.net - If data is the new oil, I'm here to help you go electric
- PrivacyGuides.org - not-for-profit, volunteer-run project that hosts online communities and publishes news and recommendations surrounding privacy and security
- PETGuide.pdf - Guide to Peer-to-peer and Encrypted messaging over Tor
- DigitalDefense.NoBlogs.org - instructions on how to handle digital security threats and general practices
- How to use Signal without a phone number - by The Intercept
- Doxcare - a zine
- Affinity Fraud & Exploitable Empathy - a zine
Privacy Tools & Resources
- nbtv.media - Videos on privacy by tech journalist Naomi Brockwell and the Ludlow Institute, a research and media non-profit dedicated to advancing human freedom through technology.
- PrivacyTools.io - provides services, tools and privacy guides to counter global mass surveillance
- EFF.org - The leading nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation
- Unshakled.org - Non-Profit dedicated to defending digital freedom through secure technologies, education, and advocacy
- CSRC.Link - Counter Surveillance Resource Center
- AtlasOfSurveillance.org - Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities with Open Source Research
- NoTrace.How - tools to help rebels understand the capabilities of their enemies, undermine surveillance efforts, and ultimately act without getting caught
- Monocles.eu/more - monocles is a project founded to move to a more secure, ecofriendly, privacy respecting, fair and open source technical and digital life for everyone
- PrivacyInternational.org - to protect democracy, defend people's dignity, and demand accountability from institutions who breach public trust
- DataRequests.org - A non-profit association helping you use your rights to access and delete your data from companies' databases
- RejectConvenience.com/privacy-visualizer/ - tool to help you visualize privacy policies
- TBlock.me - Free open source ad-blocker
- Cryptomator.org - Lets you add E2E encrypted folder to any online cloud
- TOSDR.org - Summarising small print of online services, grades privacy-friendliness
- AvoidTheHack.com - US-based site encouraging people to protect their privacy
- https://www.lealternative.net - Italian-language site about privacy-friendly apps & services
- https://direitosdigitais.pt - Non-profit in Portugal campaigning to protect privacy (in Portuguese)
- https://eirenicon.org/resilient-desktop/ - a work-in-progress Arch-based setup that balances usability with hardened layers
- Prism-Break.org - Opt out of global data surveillance programs
- SecurityInABox.org - Helping people at risk protect their digital security and privacy
- TinEye.com - reverse image search
- Topio.Info - German non-profit helping people de-Google phones (in German)
- Check.getsafeonline.org - check if a website is likely a scam
- RebelTechAlliance.org - non-profit whose main objective is to stop Big Tech spying on us and monetising our personal data
- Opsec.RiotMedicine.net
- HaveIBeenPwned.com - Check if your email address is in a data breach
- GCAToolkit.org - free and effective tools that individuals and organizations of any size can use right now to reduce cyber risk
- We Are Being Doxxed - a zine