Global Mass Surveillance - The Fourteen Eyes
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The UKUSA Agreement is an agreement between the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand to cooperatively collect, analyze, and share intelligence. Members of this group, known as the Five Eyes, focus on gathering and analyzing intelligence from different parts of the world. While Five Eyes countries have agreed to not spy on each other as adversaries, leaks by Snowden have revealed that some Five Eyes members monitor each other’s citizens and share intelligence to avoid breaking domestic laws that prohibit them from spying on their own citizens. The Five Eyes alliance also cooperates with groups of third-party countries to share intelligence (forming the Nine Eyes and Fourteen Eyes), however Five Eyes and third-party countries can and do @@ -150,7 +149,7 @@
Why is it not recommended to choose a US-based service?
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Services based in the United States are not recommended because of the country’s surveillance programs, use of National Security Letters (NSLs) and accompanying gag orders, which forbid the recipient from talking about the request. This combination allows the government to secretly force companies to grant complete access to customer data and @@ -190,7 +189,7 @@






































What is a warrant canary?
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A warrant canary is a posted document stating that an organization has not received any secret subpoenas during a specific period of time. If this document fails to be updated during the specified time then the user is to assume that the service has received such a subpoena and should stop using the service.
Warrant Canary Examples:
@@ -490,7 +489,7 @@ {% include components/card.html color="warning" title="Brave" labels="warning:experimental:Brave is a good choice if you want to use a Chromium-based browser. But at this point in Brave's development, it's not as good as Firefox with privacy addons." - image="assets/img/tools/Brave.png" + image="/assets/img/tools/Brave.png" url="https://www.brave.com/" footer="OS: Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS." description="The new open source browser \"Brave\" automatically blocks ads and trackers, making it faster and safer than your current browser. Brave is based on Chromium." @@ -503,7 +502,7 @@GNU IceCat
GNU IceCat is a good choice for privacy related matters. It is a free software rebranding of the Mozilla Firefox web browser distributed by the GNU Project. IceCat comes with pre-installed privacy add-ons.
GNU IceCat is a good choice for privacy related matters. It is a free software rebranding of the Mozilla Firefox web browser distributed by the GNU Project. IceCat comes with pre-installed privacy add-ons.
OS: Windows, macOS, Linux, Android.


When you visit a web page, your browser voluntarily sends information about its configuration, such as available fonts, browser type, and add-ons. If this combination of information is unique, it may be possible to identify and track you without using @@ -609,13 +608,13 @@ Improve your privacy with these excellent Firefox add-ons.
Stop Tracking with "Privacy Badger"
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Privacy Badger is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-party trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web. Privacy Badger learns about trackers as you browse by inspecting external resources websites request. Please be aware that Google Analytics is considered first-party by Privacy Badger, which means that Google Analytics will not be blocked if you do not use another blocker, such as uBlock Origin. https://www.eff.org/privacybadger/
Block Ads and Trackers with "uBlock Origin"
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An efficient wide-spectrum-blocker that's easy on memory, and yet can load and enforce thousands more filters than other popular blockers out there. It has no monetization strategy and
is completely open source. We recommend Firefox but uBlock Origin also works in other browsers such as Safari, Opera, and Chromium. Unlike AdBlock Plus, uBlock does not allow so-called "acceptable ads".
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Automatically Delete Cookies with "Cookie AutoDelete"
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Automatically removes cookies when they are no longer used by open browser tabs. With the cookies, lingering sessions, as well as information used to spy on you, will be expunged.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/
Encryption with "HTTPS Everywhere"
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A Firefox, Chrome, and Opera extension that encrypts your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more secure. A collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Block Content Delivery Networks with "Decentraleyes"
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Emulates Content Delivery Networks locally by intercepting requests, finding the required resource and injecting it into the environment. This all happens instantaneously, automatically, and no prior configuration is required. Source code: GitLab (self-hosted).
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/decentraleyes/
Stop cross-site requests with "uMatrix"
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Many websites integrate features which let other websites track you, such as Facebook Like Buttons or Google Analytics. uMatrix gives you control over the requests that websites make to other websites. This gives you greater and more fine-grained control
over the information that you leak online.
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Be in total control with "NoScript Security Suite"
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Highly customizable plugin to selectively allow Javascript, Java, and Flash to run only on websites you trust. Not for casual users, it requires technical knowledge to configure.
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Become Your Own Email Provider with Mail-in-a-Box
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Take it a step further and get control of your email with this easy-to-deploy mail server in a box. Mail-in-a-Box lets you become your own mail service provider in a few easy steps. It’s sort of like making your own Gmail, but one you control from top to bottom. Technically, Mail-in-a-Box turns a fresh cloud computer into a working mail server. But you don’t need to be a technology expert to set it up. More: https://mailinabox.email/
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Whiteout Mail is an open source email solution with strong end-to-end encryption that is really easy to use and runs on all of your devices. Keeping your emails safe has never been so easy. You can also get a new email address.
Whiteout Mail is an open source email solution with strong end-to-end encryption that is really easy to use and runs on all of your devices. Keeping your emails safe has never been so easy. You can also get a new email address.
OS: Chrome, Android, iOS, Web.
Control your traffic with "NetGuard"
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NetGuard provides simple and advanced ways to block certain apps' access to the internet without the help of root privileges. Applications and addresses can individually be allowed or denied access to your Wi-Fi and/or mobile connection, allowing you to control which apps are able to call home or not. https://www.netguard.me/
Manage your apps' permissions with XPrivacyLua
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Revoking Android permissions from apps often let apps crash or malfunction. XPrivacyLua solves this by feeding apps fake data instead of real data. https://lua.xprivacy.eu/
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- Data syncing is by default enabled.
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