# Privacy **URL:** https://community.humanetech.com/c/freedom/privacy/23.md [Latest](https://community.humanetech.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.humanetech.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://community.humanetech.com/tags.md) --- ## [About the Privacy category](https://community.humanetech.com/t/about-the-privacy-category/2217)
**Author:** [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)\ **Replies:** 0
How technology invades our privacy, affecting our security and freedoms. --- ## [Telemetry](https://community.humanetech.com/t/telemetry/5636)
**Author:** [@tord](https://community.humanetech.com/u/tord)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 8, 2024, 11:38am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/telemetry/5636 "2024-10-08T11:38:23Z")
Hi all, i’m working on a web app project, and i’m pretty new to web development. A more experienced web developer recommended that i add telemetry to the web app, but i don’t like the idea of this because of the privacy … --- ## [Apple and Privacy](https://community.humanetech.com/t/apple-and-privacy/2913)
**Author:** [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 19, 2019, 5:24pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/apple-and-privacy/2913 "2019-10-19T17:24:15Z")
This topic is for the collection of Privacy-related information sources applying to Apple As @patm mentioned here and a subject I earlier touched on here, it seems that Apple has decided to ride the wave of outrage about… --- ## [Secure email](https://community.humanetech.com/t/secure-email/2618)
**Author:** [@healthyswimmer](https://community.humanetech.com/u/healthyswimmer)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [June 25, 2022, 8:00pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/secure-email/2618 "2022-06-25T20:00:35Z")
Does anyone have a suggestion of a secure email service? My yahoo account is not secure anymore and it kicks out some emails even if they are in my contact list. I need reliable email before my daughter’s school starts… --- ## [Educate about privacy aspects of Google Chrome via this comic](https://community.humanetech.com/t/educate-about-privacy-aspects-of-google-chrome-via-this-comic/5375)
**Author:** [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2022, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/educate-about-privacy-aspects-of-google-chrome-via-this-comic/5375 "2022-04-21T14:46:14Z")
Most people don’t care about their privacy. Well, probably until the time they face with real negative consequences due to the loss of privacy (there’s a comparison to acting on climate change here). For those people wh… --- ## [Privacy Alert: Fitbit is now Google, Startpage.com taken over, retains independence](https://community.humanetech.com/t/privacy-alert-fitbit-is-now-google-startpage-com-taken-over-retains-independence/4479)
**Author:** [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 20, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/privacy-alert-fitbit-is-now-google-startpage-com-taken-over-retains-independence/4479 "2022-02-20T23:05:35Z")
Just a privacy heads-up to notify you privacy-aware folks of the following: Google has acquired Fitbit Fitbit is now part of Google, and thus they are now - apart from the vast amounts of personal information they alrea… --- ## [Are there audits for data privacy?](https://community.humanetech.com/t/are-there-audits-for-data-privacy/5276)
**Author:** [@djk86](https://community.humanetech.com/u/djk86)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 21, 2021, 1:28am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/are-there-audits-for-data-privacy/5276 "2021-10-21T01:28:14Z")
Hi friends, I’m working on a humane tech project, which will be an app. I’d like to tell our users that we don’t sell or use their data in harmful ways. Are there any groups which can perform an audit of our project an… --- ## [Ode to Privacy](https://community.humanetech.com/t/ode-to-privacy/5272)
**Author:** [@tetrueba](https://community.humanetech.com/u/tetrueba)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 12, 2021, 1:18pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/ode-to-privacy/5272 "2021-10-12T13:18:48Z")
The word risk derives from the early Italian “riscare” which means to dare. In this sense, risk is a choice rather than a fate. The actions we dare to take, which depend on how free we are to make choices, are the stor… --- ## [The reason why your data is worth so much](https://community.humanetech.com/t/the-reason-why-your-data-is-worth-so-much/5270)
**Author:** [@penmanship](https://community.humanetech.com/u/penmanship)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 1, 2021, 1:51pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/the-reason-why-your-data-is-worth-so-much/5270 "2021-10-01T13:51:16Z")
I don’t know who is still on this site, but it seems like the appropriate place for this :slight\_smile: The new movement in the tech world is the “Own Your Data” movement. Tech leaders are standing up to demand that F… --- ## [Databunker: Easily make your Mobile and Web apps GDPR compliant](https://community.humanetech.com/t/databunker-easily-make-your-mobile-and-web-apps-gdpr-compliant/5207)
**Author:** [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2021, 6:55am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/databunker-easily-make-your-mobile-and-web-apps-gdpr-compliant/5207 "2021-03-31T06:55:15Z")
I merged a PR from the creator of DataBunker to Awesome Humane Tech. https://databunker.org/ The project is open-source and can be self-hosted. See also: GitHub - securitybunker/databunker: Secure SDK/vault for persona… --- ## [Researchers should use privacy-respecting survey tools!](https://community.humanetech.com/t/researchers-should-use-privacy-respecting-survey-tools/2118)
**Author:** [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 20, 2021, 7:48am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/researchers-should-use-privacy-respecting-survey-tools/2118 "2021-03-20T07:48:14Z")
I created this topic, because I see researchers on this forum, and everywhere else create surveys using Google Forms (not just researchers, but just about anyone creating a survey, like the startup incubator I had to des… --- ## [Master Thesis Research Survey: "Examining user’s experiences when using Tor browser"](https://community.humanetech.com/t/master-thesis-research-survey-examining-user-s-experiences-when-using-tor-browser/5201)
**Author:** [@akshayakumarv](https://community.humanetech.com/u/akshayakumarv)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 19, 2021, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/master-thesis-research-survey-examining-user-s-experiences-when-using-tor-browser/5201 "2021-03-19T12:19:44Z")
Dear, I would like to know if I could post my user survey over here. I am doing my master thesis research on Examining user’s experiences when using Tor browser. The survey would allow me to collect country data of res… --- ## [New Student Data Privacy Project](https://community.humanetech.com/t/new-student-data-privacy-project/5186)
**Author:** [@lisajeane](https://community.humanetech.com/u/lisajeane)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2021, 9:48am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/new-student-data-privacy-project/5186 "2021-03-18T09:48:49Z")
4 parents create project to shore-up FERPA to close loophole in metadata leaking out through EdTech firehose. You can help. See: https://gold-penguin-b2rw.squarespace.com/ --- ## [Misuse of Israeli Surveillance Tech for Massive Violation of Human Rights](https://community.humanetech.com/t/misuse-of-israeli-surveillance-tech-for-massive-violation-of-human-rights/5155)
**Author:** [@nsopegasusyou](https://community.humanetech.com/u/nsopegasusyou)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 20, 2021, 4:13am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/misuse-of-israeli-surveillance-tech-for-massive-violation-of-human-rights/5155 "2021-01-20T04:13:59Z")
There is a criminal organization in Brazil using NSO Group’s Pegasus to infect devices for hack for hire, to incite terrorism, blackmail people, produce illegal pornography and assist in assassinations. They also have ot… --- ## [How humane privacy policies should be written (and in compliance with GDPR)](https://community.humanetech.com/t/how-humane-privacy-policies-should-be-written-and-in-compliance-with-gdpr/1880)
**Author:** [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [November 11, 2020, 7:34am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/how-humane-privacy-policies-should-be-written-and-in-compliance-with-gdpr/1880 "2020-11-11T07:34:14Z")
This topic is on the current practice on Privacy Policies, namely writing such long legal mumbo jumbo garbage that no normal human being can possibly understand, so usually refrains from reading and just blindly accepts. … --- ## [What if We All Sold Non-Creepy Advertising](https://community.humanetech.com/t/what-if-we-all-sold-non-creepy-advertising/4279)
**Author:** [@richard1](https://community.humanetech.com/u/richard1)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [October 15, 2020, 2:21pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/what-if-we-all-sold-non-creepy-advertising/4279 "2020-10-15T14:21:41Z")
This is an interesting perspective from Duck Duck Go founder Gabriel Weinberg. He is arguing for the return to the roots of digital advertising which is contextual advertising from behavioral advertising that we have tod… --- ## [NY Times Launches a Privacy Project](https://community.humanetech.com/t/ny-times-launches-a-privacy-project/3778)
**Author:** [@cgaf99](https://community.humanetech.com/u/cgaf99)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 30, 2020, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/ny-times-launches-a-privacy-project/3778 "2020-09-30T18:55:36Z")
The Times is also encouraging outside discussion and contribution to this project so am passing it along. Ciao for now. NY Times Privacy Project Launch --- ## [What do you think of Amazon's Alexa and others similar?](https://community.humanetech.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-amazons-alexa-and-others-similar/405)
**Author:** [@danimora](https://community.humanetech.com/u/danimora)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [September 30, 2020, 9:11am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-amazons-alexa-and-others-similar/405 "2020-09-30T09:11:55Z")
Hey, I would like to know your opinion about devices such as Amazon’s Alexa, specifically about privacy issues and the effect they might have on our life beyond convenience (eg, increase consumerism, decrease human inter… --- ## [Resisting Surveillance Capitalism](https://community.humanetech.com/t/resisting-surveillance-capitalism/4915)
**Author:** [@ZStick](https://community.humanetech.com/u/ZStick)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 19, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/resisting-surveillance-capitalism/4915 "2020-08-19T18:08:58Z")
This is just an idea, and I’d be interested in hearing people’s thoughts on it, especially those with technical know-how surrounding data mining and the ad companies that do it. I read Shoshana Zuboff’s brilliant “Age o… --- ## [Product Update: YourDigitalRights.org now supports SAR requests](https://community.humanetech.com/t/product-update-yourdigitalrights-org-now-supports-sar-requests/4876)
**Author:** [@yobo](https://community.humanetech.com/u/yobo)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2020, 10:02am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/product-update-yourdigitalrights-org-now-supports-sar-requests/4876 "2020-07-09T10:02:17Z")
Hi everyone, I posted before about YourDigitalRights.org, a free and open source service which helps you regain control of your online privacy by instructing organizations to delete the personal information that they ha… --- ## [T-Mobile and Verizon Admit Smartphones are Not Private or Secure!](https://community.humanetech.com/t/t-mobile-and-verizon-admit-smartphones-are-not-private-or-secure/2584)
**Author:** [@MySmartPrivacy](https://community.humanetech.com/u/MySmartPrivacy)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [March 27, 2020, 2:49am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/t-mobile-and-verizon-admit-smartphones-are-not-private-or-secure/2584 "2020-03-27T02:49:15Z")
Telecom providers such as AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon have monetized the telecom subscriber (“paying customer”) and authorized device user (spouse, significant other, child, etc.) leading to numerous civil liberty… --- ## [Google and Privacy - Collection of articles and discussion](https://community.humanetech.com/t/google-and-privacy-collection-of-articles-and-discussion/2732)
**Author:** [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [February 23, 2020, 9:23am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/google-and-privacy-collection-of-articles-and-discussion/2732 "2020-02-23T09:23:31Z")
Note: I have renamed this topic to be a collection of all privacy-related worries surrounding Google. Recent changes to Google Chrome cause huge uproar in tech community! With the release of Chrome version 69, Google ha… --- ## [Banning Facial Recognition Isn’t Enough](https://community.humanetech.com/t/banning-facial-recognition-isn-t-enough/4646)
**Author:** [@richard1](https://community.humanetech.com/u/richard1)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2020, 8:32pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/banning-facial-recognition-isn-t-enough/4646 "2020-02-07T20:32:18Z")
“Today, facial recognition technologies are receiving the brunt of the tech backlash, but focusing on them misses the point. We need to have a serious conversation about all the technologies of identification, correlatio… --- ## [The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It](https://community.humanetech.com/t/the-secretive-company-that-might-end-privacy-as-we-know-it/4644)
**Author:** [@richard1](https://community.humanetech.com/u/richard1)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 23, 2020, 11:45am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/the-secretive-company-that-might-end-privacy-as-we-know-it/4644 "2020-01-23T11:45:13Z")
The end of privacy as we know it? “Then Mr. Ton-That — an Australian techie and onetime model — did something momentous: He invented a tool that could end your ability to walk down the street anonymously, and provided i… --- ## [Google docs- are they secure and/or privacy-respecting?](https://community.humanetech.com/t/google-docs-are-they-secure-and-or-privacy-respecting/3505)
**Author:** [@healthyswimmer](https://community.humanetech.com/u/healthyswimmer)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [January 13, 2020, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/google-docs-are-they-secure-and-or-privacy-respecting/3505 "2020-01-13T15:05:45Z")
Original title: Google docs- are they secure? I’m falling into the grove of using google docs because I feel I have no choice. Fir example- my daughter’s school is using google docs for her independent study school pla… --- ## [Why would a company guarantee GDPR rights for another company?](https://community.humanetech.com/t/why-would-a-company-guarantee-gdpr-rights-for-another-company/4474)
**Author:** [@haraldlk](https://community.humanetech.com/u/haraldlk)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2019, 3:32pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/why-would-a-company-guarantee-gdpr-rights-for-another-company/4474 "2019-11-28T15:32:51Z")
Hi everyone, GDPR lays down rights for private individuals, which means that a legal person (e.g. a company) living/based in Europe basically have no rights to claim according to EU law. However, I have seen terms and … --- ## [What the Chinese Surveillance State Means for the Rest of the World](https://community.humanetech.com/t/what-the-chinese-surveillance-state-means-for-the-rest-of-the-world/4534)
**Author:** [@richard1](https://community.humanetech.com/u/richard1)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2019, 3:07pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/what-the-chinese-surveillance-state-means-for-the-rest-of-the-world/4534 "2019-11-23T15:07:29Z")
“Today’s economic business model all encourage to share data” says a privacy expert. In China, he adds we are seeing " what happens when the state goes after that data to exploit and weaponize it. … --- ## [What installing the Messenger app tells us about Facebook](https://community.humanetech.com/t/what-installing-the-messenger-app-tells-us-about-facebook/4520)
**Author:** [@louisbarclay](https://community.humanetech.com/u/louisbarclay)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/what-installing-the-messenger-app-tells-us-about-facebook/4520 "2019-11-22T15:36:27Z")
Hi all, I’ve written an analysis of the onboarding experience for Facebook’s Messenger app. Here’s the quick summary: tl;dr: to install Messenger without enabling notifications, giving Facebook your phone number, or gi… --- ## [What's the best solution to an AI or machine learning algorithm that's gone awry?](https://community.humanetech.com/t/whats-the-best-solution-to-an-ai-or-machine-learning-algorithm-thats-gone-awry/4527)
**Author:** [@haraldlk](https://community.humanetech.com/u/haraldlk)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2019, 8:56pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/whats-the-best-solution-to-an-ai-or-machine-learning-algorithm-thats-gone-awry/4527 "2019-11-19T20:56:40Z")
Hi all, I am wondering what the solution is to an AI or machine learning algorithm that’s gone awry, for example when it’s been developing a certain bias. A biased AI or machine learning algorithm can interfere with ou… --- ## [The Government Protects Our Food and Cars. Why Not Our Data?](https://community.humanetech.com/t/the-government-protects-our-food-and-cars-why-not-our-data/4485)
**Author:** [@richard1](https://community.humanetech.com/u/richard1)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 4, 2019, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/the-government-protects-our-food-and-cars-why-not-our-data/4485 "2019-11-04T12:25:30Z")
“In fact, the United States is virtually the only developed nation without a comprehensive consumer data protection law and an independent agency to enforce it. Instead, Americans have to rely on the Federal Trade Commis… [Next page](https://community.humanetech.com/c/freedom/privacy/23.md?page=1)