Questions tagged [privacy]
Software that protects the user's private information from unwanted interrogation from others.
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VPN that tunnels traffic across multiple, simultaneous connections?
Most VPNs work by establishing a single connection between the client and server and tunneling all traffic through that connection. For example, an OpenVPN client might make a TCP connection to a ...
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Excel problem: protect sensible data of users and protect my formulas
I have an Excel-file with multiple sheets. The goal of the file is to provide self-employed persons a calculation beforehand of what their costs are (taxes and other cost items) based on their ...
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Is there a browser which encrypts completely the user data?
Is there a browser that encrypts all user data? I am thinking about computers used at work where several people like company administrators may have access and could potentially access these files.
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How can I monitor a VS Code extension to ensure my code/files are not being sent to a remote server?
I use Copilot from GitHub and started thinking about how code that I write is sent to their remote servers to be enhanced through AI.
Is there an extension for Visual Studio Code that will monitor ...
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Alternative for Search Domains?
My company has made golinks availabale for employees; for those unfamiliar, tldr it lets you have links like http://go/some-shortcut and that redirects to a longer, harder to remember url. The thing ...
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A private camera app for iOS
I'm looking for a camera app that saves photos in an encrypted manner. I've found a lot of apps that can move photos into a "secret album," but all of these require first saving the photo ...
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Best cloud-based back-up/storage software (desktop & mobile)
I’m interested in an application that automatically syncs any kind of files on phones, tablets, and laptops (mine and my wife’s). Basically something like Google Photos, but not only for pictures. The ...
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Assure my website visitors, that their data is safe from me, that I don't see their data
I am building a White Label website where I would like to allow my visitors to host their sensitive data.
At the same time, I would like to assure them that no one, including me, doesn't use or even ...
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Calendar with high value on privacy
I'm looking for a set of calendar apps from providers that highly value privacy. Something like Google is therefore out of question. At the moment I am using an app on my phone, that I can only access ...
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Fully FOSS, self-hosted CAPTCHA?
I'm writing an email newsletter subscription manager. The server is a Python program using Flask. Are there any good CAPTCHAs I could use that are completely open source and do not connect to external ...
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Open-source mock location Android app?
Is there an open-source mock location Android app (e.g., on F-Droid)?
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Tool to automatically encrypt contents of a single folder on a volume (Windows)
Please recommend tools that will encrypt the contents of a single folder on a single NTFS volume in Windows 7.
To be clear, the utility must automatically encrypt any data saved/moved into the ...
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Survey tool without admin being able to manipulate responses
I am looking for a website where I can create an anonymous feedback form where people from my study project can give me anonymous feedback in free text form. It is very important for me that the ...
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Android blur app, must keep EXIF
I very often need to remove people faces in pictures, and am looking for an Android app to help with this task.
Requirements:
The app must be available in Android's "Share to" menu for ...
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Note-taking software with password protection
I'm looking for a note taking app that:
Is web based so I can use it with a browser mostly in both a phone and in a PC
Can search through the note contents or at least the titles or tags
Asks for a ...
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Data privacy on shared external HDD
I have a shared external HDD with my family and want to encrypt/secure my data. Now we already have a software that password protects the overall hard drive but once the HDD is accessed, all folders ...
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Is there some software to search for photos based on a GPS coordinate?
I have done this:
Determined the standard GPS coordinates for a spot right outside where I live.
I'm trying to do the following:
Input this into some kind of search engine.
Get back photos whose ...
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Free open source photo editing software with similar functionality and interface as Photoshop?
I am looking for photo editing software that is as similar as possible to Adobe Photoshop.
The reason why I want it to be as similar is because if I ever want to do a job which requires Photoshop ...
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Browser addon that aids avoiding sites with excessive use of third party cookies, tracking etc
Being not happy with the privacy-unfriendly status-quo where I "need to" share data just because I want to view online-content (legitimate consent, ...) I am wondering whether there is a ...
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Is there yet an actually trustworthy "un-Googled" Chrome/Chromium?
Google Chrome is now the de facto supported browser, just like Internet Explorer 6 was for many years.
Google Chrome is made by Google and so full of spying that it's not even funny.
Google provides a ...
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Application to indicate if multiple image files have Exif data, and delete that data
I am looking for a Windows application that will indicate if 1 or more images (JPG/JPEG, typically) have Exif data stored in them, and provide an option to delete that data.
The perfect example of ...
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Bypass Google's "Personalization settings & cookies" (consent.google.com) page, setting everything to off
Google recently introduced the "Personalization settings & cookies" page when you visit it for the "first" time, e.g. when you browse to https://www.google.com/ you get
and if ...
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what is an offline transcription or dictation app which respects privacy?
Looking at software to transcribe or dictate mp3 files, what are the open source options which run on Linux?
Looking for something which at least purports to not upload either the audio file or the ...
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Domain WHOIS privacy service that can be used with any registrar
I have several domain names registered with a registrar that only offers WHOIS "redaction" versus full-blown private registration. Unfortunately, redaction still leaves the state and ...
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How host my own disposable email?
I am looking for a solution to host my own disposable email server.
Like yopmail, or temp-mail.
Does someone know of an open source solution?
I saw:
https://github.com/o4oren/Ad-Hoc-Email-Server
But ...
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Photo app that automatically censors people faces?
I need to take many photos during a family house being constructed, but I don't want the builder people's faces to be recognizable.
Is there a photo application for Android phones that automatically ...
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Anonymised video conference platform
I'm looking for a platform to provide webinars that...
Prevents attendees from knowing who else is attending, for privacy concerns. This can be done by letting people choose pseudonyms, or by hiding ...
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What Android browsers have VPNs built in?
I want an Android browser with a stable solid VPN built-in, so that I don't need to install additional VPN client to my phone, like OpenVPN or VPN providers proprietary clients.
You call it web-proxy?...
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GDPR-compatible hosted webapp to create survey
I am in the process of creating a screener survey before my interview.
I would like to know what online software is available, preferably for free to create a screener survey? I could create a form ...
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Searching for simple but secure web-app to store a phone contact list for a group of people
I'm looking for a good web-app to store phone numbers and names of a group membership list.
"Good" means:
only members should be able to access the list (every member should be able to ...
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Looking for a secure project management platform for our group to use
Our group is a non-profit (most of us are volunteers) with a limited budget doing community awareness on the topic of safe technology use to support health and safety.
We are looking for a project ...
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PDF-File Sanitizer
Do you know a good PDF-file sanitizer?
Free would be nice but is not a must-have.
The sanitizer should either be a .NET-Core library or a program that can be executed in Windows CMD.
It should remove ...
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Speech Recognition: Free Software and Complete Privacy
Searching for software to transcribe audio files to text with the following constraints:
Language: English, French, Spanish
Complete Privacy: No internet or cloud-based solution, no upload of audio ...
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Is there a browser for Windows that supports tab isolation like Safari in private mode?
In Safari, while browsing using a private window, you can log in to a service then open a new tab and go to the same service and log in to a separate account. This same concept works for carts (i.e. 2 ...
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Allow phone calls to members of a list without exposing numbers to caller
I'm working with a non-profit that is trying to check in with many members. Under normal conditions they would have a caller on site using an on site phone list to make those calls, but are now ...
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Can you think of any way in which "normal people" can contact me (one-way) with messages in a secure, anonymous (for me) manner?
I'm trying to be able to receive incoming messages from "the general public", in a way which:
Does not reveal my identity to the person contacting me, or to any company/entity.
Does not cost money.
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No-chatting VoIP smartphone application
I am looking for a no-chatting VoIP smartphone application which can run at least on Android and has the following features:
Necessary features
Isn't owned by Facebook, inc.
Is gratis to use
Gives ...
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Is there a running app without cloud and with heart beat (heartrate) sensors connectability
I am looking for an Android running app that keeps my data local and doesn't share it with any cloud/server.
Also it should support Bluetooth Smart Heartbeat Sensors (chest belt).
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voice anonymization
In one of my projects we are recording voice from the user and converting it to text using a speech to text engine. While we provide support for pocketsphinx and kaldi this is simply not enough for ...
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Software that can hide my face in a video
I would like to record myself performing an athletic activity, and I plan on uploading those videos to receive feedback on my technique. However, before I upload the videos, I want to edit them to ...
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Recommended browsers/search engines which prevent tracking of search terms (NB: not anonymous browsing)
Can anyone suggest a browser or search engine which allows web searches without the terms being indexed somewhere by the engine?
Right off the bat let me say I don't care about anonymous searching. I'...
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A server environment that allows clients to audit server code in execution
What I'm not asking is a way for a trusted server-owner to authenticate that they are running the server to a client. That would just be a cert.
What I was hoping for is a way to limit the power of a ...
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Secure Android program for photos?
Can you please recommend a secure Android app to take photos of sensitive documents?
By secure I mean open-source, reliable/trustworthy.
My stock Android camera app syncs photos to Samsung cloud. ...
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Private and secure document storage for mobile use and sharing between 2 people
I want to arrange for communication between myself and a friend. Privacy and security are important (there is nothing illegal or even profane). Her mobile and pc computing are monitored by her family. ...
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Software to get better experiences with "modern" web page
I take steps to minimize the amount of data that can be collected about me, for a variety of reasons. For example, to reduce instances of "identity theft", hacking, etc. I normally use an older ...
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Remove private data from URL
I would like to have a tool that automatically removes private data from URLs, for example session IDs and any parameter that is not absolut necessary for the URL to work.
The tool should be ...
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Hosting simple html with authentication-only access
I have this weird idea in my mind - like is it possible to host simple html page on my desktop the access to which is only accepted via an authentication key? I have a static IP and nowadays domain ...
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Android music player that doesn't show full-screen album art
When I play or choose music from my phone in public (using headphones, of course), I don't like how the album art is displayed in most players - usually covering half the screen. My main goal here is ...
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Privacy-focused remote desktop tool/service
Could somebody advise any safe remote desktop service?
By privacy-oriented, I mean:
Open source
Encrypted
Sends to third-party servers only the minimum amount of information required to establish a ...
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Android email client that supports traditional and encrypted (Protonmail, Tutanota) email services
I use many email service providers. However cannot find any email apps that can handle all of them. Lemme explain the details:
Email providers that support simple IMAP/POP3 like gmail, outlook, yahoo ...
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