Development

IOCipher 1.0 community reboot

February 1, 2025

IOCipher update to version 1.0 We are thrilled to announce that a community contributor has picked up maintaining a fork of IOCipher and updated to …

Achieve Onion Layers of Security with the Triad of Apple-tizing Apps!

July 25, 2023

Our summer intern Alfred just graduated high-school and is preparing to attend a major university to focus on a technical degree. He has a personal …

Improving Usability of Tor on Smartphones in Latin America

June 2, 2023

Between 2022 and 2023 Guardian Project, with support from Okthanks and the Tor Project, organized and participated in a total of 12 workshops in …

Privacy Preserving Analytics in the Real World: Mailvelope Case Study

February 28, 2022

We love Mailvelope. It’s a popular browser extension for encrypting email messages. Now, Clean Insights is helping Mailvelope understand which …

Implementing TLS Encrypted Client Hello

November 30, 2021

As part of the DEfO project, we have been working on accelerating the development Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) as standardized by the IETF. ECH is the …

New insights into clean analytics

March 2, 2021

There is a giant problem with the “collect it all” status quo that pervades on the Internet, this has been clear for a long time. Tracking …

Usability: the wonderful, powerful idea that betrayed us

February 18, 2021

Usability triggered a revolution in computing, taking arcane number crunching machines and making them essential tools in so many human endeavors, …

Clean Insights: February 2021 Update on Privacy-Preserving Measurement

February 10, 2021

Greetings, all. I hope this finds you healthy and well, finding ways to enjoy the season (whichever it may be). While everyday still provides new …

New Data Sources: API Key Identifiers and BroadcastReceiver Declarations

December 15, 2020

A central focus of the Tracking the Trackers project has been to find simple ways to detect whether a given Android APK app file contains code which …

εxodus ETIP: The Canonical Database for Tracking Trackers

December 11, 2020

There is a new story to add to the list of horrors of Surveillance Capitalism: the United States’ Military is purchasing tracking and location …