This site is not maintained. Open Effect was dissolved in 2018. Open Effect's former Executive Director can be contacted at [email protected].
Open Effect
  • News
  • Issues
  • Articles
  • Software
  • About

Announcing TrackerSSL

Posted 2015-01-28 by Andrew Hilts TrackerSSL

This Data Privacy Day, Open Effect is proud to announce the alpha release of TrackerSSL, a Google Chrome browser extension that lets you see if websites are securing your web browsing activity.

For more information, check out the blog post Andrew wrote.

Download TrackerSSL | Press release | Source code

Media coverage

Toronto Star | PC World | Metro News | VICE

Share this post: on Twitter on Facebook on Google+

Access My Info logo Request access to your personal data with our simple tool

Latest News

  • Access My Info Software Design Document Published
  • Every Step You Fake: Final Report released
  • Every Step You Fake: A Comparative Analysis of Fitness Tracker Privacy and Security
  • Designing Enabling Economies and Policies: OCAD event
  • Half Baked: The Opportunity to Secure Cookie-based Identifiers from Passive Surveillance

  • Fitness trackers put usersโ€™ health data at risk, study suggests. www.thestar.com/news/privacy-b… cc @citizenlab #privacy #fitness #security

    2016-02-04 4:52 pm

  • RT @RonDeibert: Some Serious Security and Privacy Issues with Fitness Trackers... twitter.com/citizenlab/status/…

    2016-02-02 1:07 pm

  • A first look at our report, Every Step you Fake: A Comparative Analysis of Fitness Tracker Privacy and Security. openeffect.ca/fitness-tracker-…

    2016-02-02 10:20 am

  • RT @CBCNews: Some fitness trackers vulnerable to monitoring, U of T study finds ift.tt/1KnadB0 pic.twitter.com/36ttO0IqNS

    2016-02-02 10:18 am

  • RT @DEEP_IDRC: Two Case Studies in Digital Privacy, Access & Security, by Andrew Hilts pic.twitter.com/Bo79IbV1x5

    2015-10-15 6:27 pm

Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Privacy notice: This website uses the third party service Google Analytics to collect statistics about visitors' usage of this website. By accessing this website you consent to Google's collection and usage of data about your web browser and the pages visited on this website (see details). For more information about Google's use of this data, please visit Google Analytics' Terms of Service.