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The Search for Ethical Apps: Let's start with governments

September 1, 2022

Governments across the world are moving services to mobile apps. The vast majority of these apps are only available in the Google Play store or in the …

Decentralizing Distribution

February 5, 2022

Guardian Project has been awarded a grant from the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) to work on decentralizing veracity and …

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 …

Distribution in Depth: Mirrors as a Source of Resiliency

December 7, 2020

There are many ways to get the apps and media, even when the Internet is expensive, slow, blocked, or even completely unavailable. Censorshop …

Managing offline maps with F-Droid and OsmAnd

November 28, 2020

When disaster strikes, our mobile devices can provide us with many tools to deal with a wide variety of problems. The internet is not available in …

Tracking the Trackers: using machine learning to aid ethical decisions

January 16, 2020

F-Droid is a free software community app store that has been working since 2010 to make all forms of tracking and advertising visible to users. It has …

Trusted Update Channels vs. Scratching Your Itch

December 2, 2019

One of the great things about free software is that people can easily take a functional program or library and customize it as they see fit. Anyone …

Wind is a Mozilla & National Science Foundation Grand Prize Winner

September 26, 2018

On August 14th, members of the Guardian Project team traveled to Mountain View to compete in the final round of the Wireless Innovation for a …

Building a Signing Server

December 18, 2017

The Android APK signing model sets the expectation that the signing key will be the same for the entire lifetime of the app. That can be seen in the …