With growing concerns over online privacy and securing personal data, more people than ever are considering alternatives to Google products. After all, Google’s business model essentially revolves around data collection and advertisements, both of which infringe on your privacy.
Inrupt’s dedicated team of developers, designers and business people have been working with a core of Solid experts and members of the open-source community to ensure it’s becoming robust, feature-rich and increasingly ready for wide-scale adoption.
Solid (derived from "social linked data") is a proposed set of conventions and tools for building decentralized social applications based on Linked Data principles. Solid is modular and extensible and it relies as much as possible on existing W3C standards and protocols.
Firefox add-on for visualizing connections to third-party websites (including cookies) that can indicate user-tracking. Users can select sites to block or add sites to a personal "watch" list.
Developed by Mozilla.
Keeping your Facebook info private is getting harder and harder all the time—mostly because Facebook keeps trying to make it public. To help you out, we've created a comprehensive guide to keeping your Facebook locked down and in your control, and we're going to keep it updated whenever Facebook decides to add a new feature or change its privacy defaults… yet again.
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