Guardian Project Blog

Easy translation workflows and the risks of translating in the cloud

June 8, 2020

Crowdsourced translation has opened up software and websites to whole new languages, regions, and uses. Making translating easier has brought in more …

Onion Browser Release 2.6 Tutorial

June 2, 2020

In this tutorial we’re going to talk about the best practices to browse the web securely on iOS using Onion Browser Release 2.6 and the Tor …

On the classification of tracking

May 20, 2020

This position paper tries to outline a framework for defining trackers in smart phones and lists mechanisms for identifying them. It hopes to serve as …

Free Software Tooling for Android Feature Extraction

May 6, 2020

As part of the Tracking the Trackers project, we are inspecting thousands of Android apps to see what kinds of tracking we can find. We are looking at …

"Features" for Finding Trackers

April 28, 2020

One key component of the Tracking the Trackers project is building a machine learning (ML) tool to aide humans to find tracking in Android apps. One …

Figuring Out Crowdsourced Translation of Websites

April 23, 2020

Crowdsourced translation platforms like Weblate, Transifex, Crowdin, etc. have proven to be a hugely productive way to actively translate apps and …

The Promise and Hazards of COVID Contact Tracing Apps

April 9, 2020

There has been increasing interest in the possibilities of tracking people who are infected with Coronavirus using all of the various methods that …

We Support the Open COVID Pledge

April 9, 2020

Please join this Open COVID Pledge by committing to freely share technology for all work that aims to end the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

Improving Crowdsourced Translation of Long Form Text

March 5, 2020

We are happy to announce the start of work on another step in improving crowdsourced localization, funded by the ISC Project. This is the second part …

MASQUE Review

February 25, 2020

MASQUE is set of related IETF drafts for specifying flexible proxying built into a standard webserver. It is meant to be deployed on a server that is …