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Privacy Focused Products and Services


Hardware


Purism laptops - https://puri.sm/
  • Privacy focused laptops/tablets
  • "Purism follows a strict belief in users’ rights to privacy, security, and freedom."
  • "We promise that Purism systems will use hardware and software that respects users’ rights." - such as the GPS/webcam "off" switch
  • Comes with Purism OS -
    "from the bootloader, kernel, through to the hundreds of thousands of software applications available, is built line-by-line to with emphasis on your rights to privacy, security, and freedom."
     


Blackphone 2 - https://www.silentcircle.com/products-and-solutions/devices/
  • Privacy focused smartphone
  • "Blackphone runs on Silent OS, an enhanced Android operating system that delivers privacy without compromise."
  • "Spaces enables work and personal lives to coexist on one phone"
  • "Blackphone’s preloaded apps put you in control of what you share"
  • "Blackphone 2 will allow you to literally have your work phone and personal phone separate within the same device. Phones purchased directly from Silent Circle come with a 1-year subscription to the company's encrypted voice and text messaging service, which currently costs app users on other devices about $25 a month."


Turing Phone - https://www.turingphone.com/
  • Upcoming phone, promises privacy features - fingerprint reader, MagSafe-like connector instead of USB connector.
  • "paves the way for trustworthy communication"
  • Built to be physically robust: "the Turing Phone is built with a pioneering material called Liquidmorphium, an amorphous “liquid metal” alloy tougher than either titanium or steel"
  • Claims to be "unhackable" 


Software

Silent Phone - https://www.silentcircle.com/products-and-solutions/software/ 
  • "Private, encrypted communication and secure file transfer on
    any device, for everyone in your enterprise."
  • "Completely secure messaging. Send and receive large files up to 100MB per message" 

Tails - https://tails.boum.org/
  • Privacy centred operating system
  • Use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship;
    all connections to the Internet are forced to go through the Tor network;
  • Leave no trace on the computer you are using unless you ask it explicitly;
  • Use state-of-the-art cryptographic tools to encrypt your files, emails and instant messaging.

  • Whonix is the only actively developed OS designed to be run inside a VM and paired with Tor.
  • Desktop operating system designed for advanced security and privacy
  • Online anonymity possible via fail-safe, automatic, and desktop-wide use of the Tor network
  • Heavily reconfigured Debian base is run inside multiple virtual machines, providing a substantial layer of protection from malware and IP leaks

Obscuracam - https://guardianproject.info/apps/obscuracam/
  • Obscuracam is a photo and video app for Android that keeps certain information private.
  • ObscuraCam will automatically detect faces that you can pixelate, redact (blackout) or protect with funny nose and glasses. You can also invert pixelate, so that only the person you select is visible, and no one in the background can be recognized.
  • "app will also remove all identifying data stored in photos including GPS location data and phone make & model."

Services

Ello - https://ello.co/ 
  • Social network - "simple, beautiful and ad-free"
  • Ello is not in business to harvest as much of your personal data and sell you as many ads as possible. 
    As a Public Benefit Corporation, Ello has a legal mandate to never sell ads or personal data to third parties.
  • "information is anonymous and aggregated. Before information about you is stored on the Google/Segment servers, your IP address is stripped and anonymized."
  • Ello settings page, you can choose to turn Google Analytics and Segment off completely when you visit Ello. Ello also respects Do Not Track (DNT) settings in browsers. In these cases Ello will not send any information about your visit to Google at all. 







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