Open Source

Steps towards trusted VPNs

February 28, 2023

VPNs have become quite popular in recent years for a number of reasons, and more and more they are being touted as a privacy tool. The question is …

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 …

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 …

On the classification of tracking

May 20, 2020

This position paper tries to outline a framework for defining trackers in smart phones and lists mechanisms for identifying them. It hopes to serve as …

Free Software Tooling for Android Feature Extraction

May 6, 2020

As part of the Tracking the Trackers project, we are inspecting thousands of Android apps to see what kinds of tracking we can find. We are looking at …

The Promise and Hazards of COVID Contact Tracing Apps

April 9, 2020

There has been increasing interest in the possibilities of tracking people who are infected with Coronavirus using all of the various methods that …

Announcing new libraries: F-Droid Update Channels

May 31, 2017

In many places in the world, it is very common to find Android apps via a multitude of sources: third party app stores, Bluetooth transfers, swapping …

F-Droid Lubbock Report – What We Want to Know

April 17, 2017

F-Droid LBK Usability Study Report – What We Want to Know Prepared by Carrie Winfrey Preliminary Version – April 17, 2017 Introduction When planning …

Build Android apps with Debian: apt install android-sdk

March 13, 2017

In Debian stretch, the upcoming new release, it is now possible to build Android apps using only packages from Debian. This will provide all of the …

Build Your Own App Store: Android Media Distribution for Everyone

February 22, 2017

Most people get their Android apps from Google Play. It is usually the simplest and most secure option for them. But there are also many people who do …