Online privacy tools that I use or would like to learn more about.
More resources:
- Security in a Box: Tools and Tactics for Your Digital Security
- What They Know: Digital Privacy (Wall Street Journal)
- The Surveillance Catalog (Wall Street Journal)
- List of privacy tools from the Wall Street Journal Data Transparency Weekend
- Stay Secure, Stay Safe! Survival in the Digital Age
- Primer on surveillance and security (Riseup.net)
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BetterPrivacy
in 4 toolboxes
add to my toolboxRemove or manage persistent "super-cookies" better known as Locally Shared Objects, or LSOs. Offers various ways to handle Flash-cookies set by Google, YouTube, eBay and others.
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Collusion
in 11 toolboxes
add to my toolboxCollusion is a Firefox addon that provides an interactive, real-time visualization of the entities that track your behavior as you surf the web.
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Collusion for Safari/Chrome
in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxCollusion is available for Safari and Chrome in addition to Firefox. Collusion is a browser addon that provides an interactive, real-time visualization of the entities that track your behavior as you surf the web.
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DeleteMe
in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxA service that deletes your personal information from the largest, most invasive databases and monitors them to prevent info from reappearing.
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Disconnect
in 1 toolbox
add to my toolboxBrowser add-on that prevents Facebook, Twitter, Google, and other third parties and advertisers from tracking your web browsing.
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Do Not Track Plus
in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxDNT+ blocks third party tracking of your browsing behavior, so you can browse freely and safely.
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DuckDuckGo
in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxSearch engine that does not track you or filter your results based on your past searches. I've found it to be a very good alternative to Google for 90% of the searches I do.
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Ghostery
in 5 toolboxes
add to my toolboxGhostery tracks the trackers and provides a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers, and other companies interested in your activity.
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HTTPS Everywhere
in 8 toolboxes
add to my toolboxHTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It encrypts your communications with a number of major websites.
Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links that go back to the unencrypted site. The HTTPS Everywhere extension fixes these problems by rewriting all requests to these sites to HTTPS. -
LBE Privacy Guard
in 1 toolbox
add to my toolboxAndroid app that lets you allow/block individual permissions requested by other Android apps. Sandbox the flow of information to/from your apps. Requires a rooted phone.
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Mailinator
in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxHow do I create an account at Mailinator? It's simple, you just send email to it. Temporary accounts are created when email arrives for them. First, you give out the mailinator email address you created, and then you check it. It's that simple.
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Me & My Shadow
in 1 toolbox
add to my toolboxBy surfing, texting friends, using social media, we leave traces. Trace your Digital Shadow.
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Multifox
in 6 toolboxes
add to my toolboxMultifox is an extension that allows Firefox to connect to websites using different user names, simultaneously.
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Orbot: Mobile Anonymity + Circumvention
in 6 toolboxes
add to my toolboxOrbot is an application that allows mobile phone users to access the web, instant messaging and email without being monitored or blocked by their mobile internet service provider. Orbot brings the features and functionality of Tor (read more below) to the Android mobile operating system.
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PrivacyWatch
in 1 toolbox
add to my toolboxA notification service that monitors Facebook's Data Use Policy and privacy controls for any changes and sends you updates and tips on how to maintain your privacy on Facebook.
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RequestPolicy
in 1 toolbox
add to my toolboxFirefox extension that gives you control over cross-site requests.
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Tor
in 30 toolboxes
add to my toolboxFree software for anonymous Internet communication.
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Tor Browser Bundle
in 9 toolboxes
add to my toolboxThe Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, and it lets you access sites which are blocked.
The Tor Browser Bundle lets you use Tor on Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux without needing to install any software. It can run off a USB flash drive, comes with a pre-configured web browser, and is self-contained. The Tor IM Browser Bundle additionally allows instant messaging and chat over Tor. If you would prefer to use your existing web browser, install Tor permanently, or if you don't use Windows, see the other ways to download Tor.
