Guardian Project Blog

IETF112 - Meeting Update (November 2021)

November 24, 2021

The 112th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) took place November 8-12, 2021 - as a virtual event for the sixth time in succession …

The IETF and Internet Freedom

October 18, 2021

It seems useful to clarify the relationship between the near-term work of keeping the Internet open on a daily basis - work that dominates the efforts …

New insights into clean analytics

March 2, 2021

There is a giant problem with the “collect it all” status quo that pervades on the Internet, this has been clear for a long time. Tracking …

Usability: the wonderful, powerful idea that betrayed us

February 18, 2021

Usability triggered a revolution in computing, taking arcane number crunching machines and making them essential tools in so many human endeavors, …

Clean Insights: February 2021 Update on Privacy-Preserving Measurement

February 10, 2021

Greetings, all. I hope this finds you healthy and well, finding ways to enjoy the season (whichever it may be). While everyday still provides new …

New Data Sources: API Key Identifiers and BroadcastReceiver Declarations

December 15, 2020

A central focus of the Tracking the Trackers project has been to find simple ways to detect whether a given Android APK app file contains code which …

εxodus ETIP: The Canonical Database for Tracking Trackers

December 11, 2020

There is a new story to add to the list of horrors of Surveillance Capitalism: the United States’ Military is purchasing tracking and location …

Distribution in Depth: Mirrors as a Source of Resiliency

December 7, 2020

There are many ways to get the apps and media, even when the Internet is expensive, slow, blocked, or even completely unavailable. Censorshop …

Managing offline maps with F-Droid and OsmAnd

November 28, 2020

When disaster strikes, our mobile devices can provide us with many tools to deal with a wide variety of problems. The internet is not available in …

June 8, 2020

In 2010, at the Open Video Conference hackathon, I came up with a concept called “auto blur the news”, while in a brainstorm with …