A new project to promote awareness for online privacy aspects, and to share simple tools and methods to reduce your digital footprint in the internet.
Based in Switzerland.
Tired of Gboard sending your keystrokes to Google? FUTO Keyboard is a fully offline Android keyboard with built-in voice-to-text — no internet connection, ever. Swipe typing, autocorrect, and Whisper-based speech recognition, all on-device.
GrapheneOS just shipped Speech Services — a fully open source, on-device TTS engine for the custom ROM. Great to finally see native TTS in a privacy-focused OS.
By @GrapheneOS
🔗 https://github.com/GrapheneOS/SpeechServices
Fast, efficient, and high-quality text-to-speech for GrapheneOS using state-of-the-art models running completely on-device. - GrapheneOS/SpeechServices
The industry that profits from harvesting your personal data is about to cross $1 trillion. Meta and Google are racing each other to the top of that pile.
A US Senate report finds data brokers deliberately design opt-out processes to fail — in some cases requiring a paid subscription just to find your own listings.
By US Senate Joint Economic Committee
https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/7f821956-d826-4241-8196-be987cc1f06c/2026-02-27-jec-data-brokers-report-final.pdf
A deep dive into how behavioral advertising became the internet's dominant business model — and what it costs us in privacy.
By The Privacy Issue
https://theprivacyissue.com/data-tracking/big-business-ad-tech
Practical guide on using cloud storage securely — encryption, sharing practices, and why E2EE matters for everyday users.
By All Things Secured
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahk9z0ZoCT8
"Privacy is dead" is not just a hopeless take. It's an engineered response from years of people losing hope that couldn't be further from the truth.
I discussed the dangerous narrative and the small things that actually fight back.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/G_meB00Vdhw
Watch on PeerTube away from Google: https://techlore.tv/w/4QxudKhzas2qEZ9rjQ7tUs
@PrettySimplePrivacy @techlore
Will still recommend using Signal, XMPP, SimpleX, Matrix or any other encrypted chat service than trusting Google or Apple. (Haven’t watched the video yet but I’m pretty sure most privacy advocates will agree with me)
Still, it’s good that we’re raising the baseline of iOS to Android communication. Even if it’s only by a little.
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