Internet Privacy Resources

Privacy guides and community resources

• Privacy Guides (privacyguides.org) — Community-maintained guide to privacy-respecting software and services, including VPN recommendations and browser hardening.
• EFF Deeplinks — Analysis and commentary on digital privacy, surveillance, and internet freedom from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
• EFF Surveillance Self-Defense — Practical guide to protecting yourself online from surveillance, including threat modelling and tool recommendations.

Browser fingerprinting research

• Cover Your Tracks (EFF) — Tests browser fingerprint uniqueness and tracker protection, successor to Panopticlick. Foundational research on browser fingerprint entropy.
• Laperdrix, P. et al. (2016). Beauty and the Beast: Diverting Modern Web Browsers to Build Unique Browser Fingerprints. IEEE S&P 2016. Seminal research quantifying browser fingerprint uniqueness across 118,934 browsers.
• Eckersley, P. (2010). How Unique Is Your Web Browser? EFF. Original Panopticlick study showing 83.6% of browsers have a unique fingerprint among tested population.
• BrowserLeaks.com — Technical reference for browser APIs that expose fingerprinting data, including Canvas, WebGL, and AudioContext tests.

VPN and leak research

• Ikram, M. et al. (2016). An Analysis of the Privacy and Security Risks of Android VPN Permission-enabled Apps. ACM IMC 2016. Analysed 283 Android VPN apps; found 18% implement tunnelling without encryption, and many expose DNS traffic.
• Hildenbrand, E. et al. (2015). A Glance through the VPN Looking Glass: IPv6 Leakage and DNS Hijacking in Commercial VPN Clients. PET Symposium 2015. Documented IPv6 leakage and DNS hijacking in 14 commercial VPN clients.
• Top10VPN Research — Ongoing audit of commercial VPN services including IP and DNS leak testing methodology.
• Mullvad VPN Blog — Technical posts on VPN leak vectors, WebRTC, and network privacy from one of the most transparency-focused VPN providers.

DNS privacy standards and resources

• RFC 7858 — DNS over TLS — IETF standard defining DNS over TLS (DoT) encryption for DNS queries.
• RFC 8484 — DNS Queries over HTTPS (DoH) — IETF standard for DNS over HTTPS, used by Firefox, Chrome, and Edge.
• Quad9 Privacy Policy — Non-profit DNS resolver policy; reference for what a privacy-committed resolver commits to.
• Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Privacy Commitment — Cloudflare public DNS resolver privacy commitment and annual privacy examination.

WebRTC and ICE standards

• W3C WebRTC 1.0 Specification — Official W3C specification for WebRTC, including the RTCPeerConnection API used in ICE candidate collection.
• RFC 8445 — Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) — IETF standard defining the ICE protocol used by WebRTC to collect network addresses including local and public IPs.
• RFC 5245 — ICE (original) — Original ICE specification for reference.

IP addressing and BGP standards

• IANA AS Numbers Registry — Authoritative IANA registry of ASN allocations by regional internet registry.
• RFC 4271 — Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) — The IETF standard for BGP, the routing protocol that ASNs use to exchange routing information.
• RIPE Stat — Real-time BGP routing data, prefix analysis, and ASN information from RIPE NCC.
• Hurricane Electric BGP Toolkit — ASN and prefix lookup tool covering the full BGP routing table.

Academic and policy references

• FTC ISP Privacy Report (2021) — US Federal Trade Commission report on ISP data collection and use practices.
• EDPS — Internet Privacy — European Data Protection Supervisor resources on online privacy rights under GDPR.
• ENISA Cybersecurity Resources — European Union Agency for Cybersecurity educational and reference materials.

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