Tired of misleading cookie banners? The EU Commission has finally proposed a solution: set your privacy preferences in the browser once, and never see another banner. Unfortunately, the tracking industry is pushing back – and so far, they’ve been successful. We need YOUR help to #KillTheCookieBanner!
Your data is so precious that stores will stop at nothing to get it from you. Including offering you free things, discounts, sweepstakes, and all kinds of "perks." Just become one of the "club," collect "points," be a "VIP," grab a card for CVS, Shoprite, Wegmans, and watch the cents come off at the till! Those perks sure seem great, but they are gateways to tracing your purchases at an ever more fine-grained level.
Sister post: https://www.optoutproject.net/how-to-shop-untraceably-online/
You have the right to control your data, devices, and services. We coordinate, develop and foster communities of Reclaimers who want digital independence. Together, let's reclaim the right to a technical future of data sovereignty, digital autonomy, responsible governance, and collective care online for all.
A list of data brokers (and related places) and how to request your data be deleted/removed from them. Updated regularly.
Generate GPX and KMZ files from your Google Maps saved places to import as bookmarks in CoMaps, or use anywhere you'd like. This tool generates everything locally in your browser and does not upload any data.
Raised on “Stranger Danger,” today’s helicopter parents are so overprotective and safety conscious they won’t even let their children go on unsupervised playdates. So how did Disney convince them to willingly give away the entirety of their children’s personal information to a faceless corporation: their names and addresses, what they like to eat, the names of their friends and family members, and their favorite cartoon characters?
Apparently, the answer is convenience.
Companion piece here, focusing on the tech stuff: https://www.optoutproject.net/data-free-disney/