Apps often demand excessive permissions, accessing your contacts, location, and more. Discover why sticking to your browser offers better privacy and control.

(WIP) Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first - zedless-editor/zed

Invidious is an open source alternative front-end to YouTube.

Modern cars are computers on wheels that send home nonstop telemetry about you. In this post I remove my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid's modem and GPS to prevent that :)

The founder of encrypted messaging service Telegram has been detained in France as part of an investigation into a lack of moderation and criminal use of the platform.

ASIO boss Mike Burgess says he may soon use powers to compel tech companies to cooperate with warrants and unlock encrypted chats to aid national security investigations.

With Firefox 145, we’re rolling out major privacy upgrades that take on browser fingerprinting — a pervasive and hidden tracking technique that lets we

Join the Be Like Clippy movement to make technology more user-friendly and transparent. Including a list of custom clippy profile pictures

On February 3, 2026, the I2P anonymity network was flooded with 700,000 hostile nodes in what became one of the most devastating Sybil attacks an anonymity network has ever experienced. The network normally operates with 15,000 to 20,000 active devices. The attackers overwhelmed it by a factor

Age verification is forcing companies to undermine data privacy laws.

A security researcher has designed an algorithm that can create computer-generated patterns capable of hiding people, faces, and vehicles from detection by surveillance cameras.

Changes to Ubuntu's telemetry with the new Ubuntu Insights tool include more frequent reporting, more controls and more transparency on what's collected.

A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, etc. requests to alternative privacy-friendly frontends

Contribute to privastead/privastead development by creating an account on GitHub.

Facebook and Yandex link Web and App usage via a localhost network connection

Adventures in vintage computers and retrogaming. Includes articles on classic games and obsolete computers.

Jigsaw is an interdisciplinary unit within Google that builds technology that inspires scalable solutions.

DO_NOT_TRACK — A proposed standard environment variable for opting out of telemetry, analytics, and tracking in CLI and TUI applications.

Timelinize ("time-lynn-eyes") is an open source personal archival suite, designed for modern family history. It organizes all your data onto a single, unified timeline on your own computer.