Cookieless EC measurement: a 4-step shift to first-party
"Safari traffic looks like it lost 30% of conversions year over year." "Tags fire empty after the cookie banner went up." I keep hearing variations of…
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Paragon is not collaborating with Italian authorities probing spyware attacks, report says
Despite promising to help determine what happened with the hacks targeting journalists and activists in Italy, Israeli American spyware maker Paragon …
US Supreme Court appears split over controversial use of ‘geofence’ search warrants
The U.S. top court is expected to rule on whether to allow police to identify criminal suspects by dragnet searching the databases of tech giants.
I Built a QR Code Scanner That Doesn't Phone Home — No Ads, No Account, No Internet Permission
QR codes are everywhere — restaurant menus, Wi-Fi labels, package tracking, payment kiosks, business cards. So is the temptation to install whatever Q…
I Built CrabPDF: a Privacy-First PDF Editor That Runs Locally in the Browser
PDF tools are everywhere, yes. This is what I believed. But every time I needed to edit quickly a PDF from another computer, I found always the same p…
Paying to Be the Product: The AI Privacy Illusion Nobody's Talking About
In tech, we've always said: "If you're not paying for the product — you are the product." In today's AI reality, that statement needs an update: we ar…
An open API for composable privacy extensions
How browser extensions can query the user's consent state via a standard protocol The problem: privacy tools that can't talk to each other The browser…
How ProtoConsent answers consent banners without touching the DOM
A declarative approach to CMP auto-response: cookie injection, not click simulation The banner problem Consent management platforms (CMPs) are used by…
A .well-known file for website privacy declarations
How websites can declare their data practices in a machine-readable format The idea Most websites have a privacy policy. Most people don't read them. …
Purpose-based consent: a missing layer in the browser
Why organizing privacy choices around purposes, not vendors, changes everything The problem with consent today There is no browser-level place where a…
Privacy First: Building a Local Llama-3 Health Assistant on MacBook M3 with MLX
Do you really want to upload your private medical records, blood test results, or sensitive health concerns to a cloud server? For many of us, the ans…
PreviewDrop's Privacy Policy Is Live — What It Means for Teams Who Care About Data
When your team evaluates a new developer tool, the conversation rarely starts with the privacy policy. It starts with the demo, the pricing page, the …
From factory worker to 2,000+ installs - what actually worked
I'm not a CS graduate. I didn't go to a bootcamp. Two years ago I was working in a factory. Today I have an Android app on the Play Store with 2,000+ …
Building Compliance-Native Child Safety: What DSA and UKOSA Actually Require
If you operate a platform where users under 18 might be present — a game, a community forum, a tutoring app, a messaging tool — there's a good chance …
Plausible vs Fathom Analytics: Which Fits in 2026?
If you’re searching for plausible vs fathom analytics , you’re probably trying to ship a privacy-friendly dashboard without turning your site into a s…
I built a privacy-first PDF dark mode converter that runs entirely in your browser
TL;DR: I shipped pdfdark.org — a browser-side PDF dark mode converter. Files don't get uploaded; the entire conversion happens in your browser via PDF…
Your Encrypted App Has a Leak. It's Called Metadata.
In 2014, General Michael Hayden — former director of both the NSA and the CIA — made a remark that should have ended the "I use an encrypted app so I'…
Privacy-first mind mapping app. Part 3: Encryption Model - The Heart
This article describes the encryption model behind MindMapVault — not as a feature list, but as an engineering constraint that shapes every other deci…
Another spyware maker caught distributing fake Android snooping apps
Researchers have found a new case where government authorities used a fake Android app to plant spyware on a target’s phone. The company that allegedl…
AI for Personal: How Edge-Native Agents Bring Data Sovereignty Back to Your Device
When you ask a cloud-based AI agent to "summarize my last 20 emails" or "fill out this expense report from my receipts," you're making an implicit tra…
How Face Blur Patches Stay Aligned During Export
Blurring a face is easy if you only care about a static demo. It gets more interesting when the user can redetect faces, expand padding, move patches,…
How to Run a Private AI Assistant on Your Phone in 2026 (Offline, No Account, No Filters)
Your phone's processor can run a 7-billion-parameter language model. It can generate images with Stable Diffusion. It can execute Python scripts and r…
Privacy-first mind mapping app. Part 2: Rust Backend - Why the Pain Is Worth It
Choosing Rust for a backend can feel irrational at first. If your short‑term goal is raw development speed, Rust does not win. The compiler is unforgi…
Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people’s phone locations, researchers say
The Citizen Lab found two separate surveillance vendors abusing the backbone of cellular networks to spy on several victims across the world.
Sovereign AI – Why Your Agents Should Run on Your Hardware
Anthropic launched Claude Managed Agents. OpenAI has Operator. Microsoft offers Azure‑hosted governance. OpenBox AI raised $5M for cloud‑based "enterp…
Private AI Inference on Midnight: Keep Your Data Secret, Prove Your Output is Real
Introduction There is a quiet problem at the heart of modern AI: the data powering personalised outputs often belongs to someone who never consented t…
ListenCircle: A Digital Talking Circle for Real Human Connection
We built ListenCircle to bring the ancient practice of the Talking Circle into the digital world. It’s a space where every human being can speak and b…
I got tired of shady PDF sites, so I built a fully client-side "Bureaucracy Survival Kit"
Whenever I needed to resize a passport photo to an exact KB limit, or add a signature to a form, I ended up on sketch websites that felt like massive …
Why I built a Zero-Server PDF Editor with React & pdf-lib (and skipped WASM)
The Privacy Bottleneck Merging tax documents or signing contracts often forces a compromise: convenience vs. security. Standard free tools require upl…
Strip Location Data From Your Photos Before Posting — Here's the Browser Tool That Does It
Every photo you take carries a hidden backpack of metadata. Camera model, lens settings, GPS coordinates, timestamps — it's all buried in the EXIF dat…