As the trail of digital crumbs we leave behind grows longer, the ability to re-identify “anonymous” data sets increases.

Appears to be an attempt to do AOSP while removing google tracking hooks

Recommendations for security against
* trademark/copyright bullies
* overseas speech regulators
* identity theft and marketing

Reset your advertising ID regularly – this won’t stop you from being tracked and profiled, but it can nonetheless temporarily limit the invasiveness of your profile. This can be found on most Android devices under, Settings > Google > Ads > Reset Advertising ID.

Limit ad personalization by opting out of ad personalization in the Android settings. This can be found on most Android devices under, Settings > Google > Ads > Opt out of personalized Advertising.

90% of the 959,000 apps from the US and UK Google Play stores that they studied had at least one tracker; 170,000 apps had more than twenty trackers.

Privacy International found that 61% of those 400,000 apps automatically transfer data to Facebook the moment a user opens them. This happens whether or not people have a Facebook account, and regardless of whether they are logged into Facebook or not. In addition, those apps send a unique identifier, the Google advertising ID, to Facebook. This is extremely problematic, because it renders data aggregation and the construction of data profiles much easier.

I’ve collected these tips and rumors about the Chinese Great Firewall.
A few things to remember overall:
Servers in Japan and the U.S. are most frequently blocked, Hong Kong is blocked less, and servers in Canada, Europe and Russia are almost never blocked
Firewall restrictions vary from region to region in China
Some restrictions vary from carrier to carrier, and from ISP to ISP
Methods of obfuscation that work last year will not always work this year
Advice on the Firewall from “Phoebe Cross”...

Mandatory SIM card registration eradicates the potential for anonymity of communications, enables location-tracking, and simplifies communications surveillance and interception. It can also be used in conjunction with an IMSI catcher to know the possible identities of everyone in a particular area.

SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower submission system. News organizations can install it to safely and anonymously receive documents and tips from sources.
These are all “onion” pages. You must install the Tor browser to view onion pages. Tor is a network that protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world.