Digital Privacy. Open Source Solutions
Digital privacy helps individuals remain anonymous online by protecting personally identifiable information such as names, addresses and bank card information.
Various projects aim to develop privacy applications, practice guides and policies.
Digital privacy can be protected through a variety of measures, such as using strong passwords, encrypting data, and being careful when sharing personal information online.
Individuals also rely on laws and regulations to protect their privacy rights online. Many countries have laws governing data protection and privacy, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union, which gives people the right to access, correct and delete their personal data held by organizations.
Digital privacy can be defined under three subcategories: information privacy, communication privacy, and identity privacy.
Digital privacy is increasingly becoming a topic of interest as information and data shared via social media becomes more commercialized. The more a user shares on social media, the more privacy is lost.
Legal basis of the Republic of Moldova
Law # 133/2011 regarding the protection of personal data [Ro]
Law # 48/2023 about cybersecurity [Ro]
Legal basis of EU
General Data Protection Regulation # 679/2018 of EU (GDPR);
Directive (EU) 2022/2555 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 December 2022 on measures for a high common level of cybersecurity across the Union
Recommendations.
If any of the solutions interests you, or you think that it has a good perspective for development, or you can adapt the software to the needs of citizens, authorities, businesses or NGO-s in Moldova, then you can:
- submit suggested improvements as Pull Requests (GitHub), or
- publish the modification as your own Fork (Github) for users with similar preferences.
1. International Solutions
| # | Open Source Solution | Web | Licence |
| 1 | awesome-selfhosted / awesome-selfhosted A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers. Self-hosting is the practice of hosting and managing applications on your own server(s) instead of consuming from SaaSS providers. This is a list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own server(s). Non-Free software is listed on the Non-Free page. |
reddit.com/r/selfhosted/ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| 2 | caddyserver / caddy Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS. Caddy is an extensible server platform that uses TLS by default. |
caddyserver.com | Apache-2.0 |
| 3 | Basecamp / Policies 37signals Policies, Terms, and Legal Stuff. Terms of Service, Privacy policy, California Resident Notice at Collection, Cancellation policy, Refund policy, Use Restrictions policy, Security overview, Until the End of the Internet, Taxes. |
basecamp.com/about/policies | CC BY 4.0 |
| 4 | InteractiveAdvertisingBureau / GDPR-Transparency-and-Consent-Framework Technical specifications for IAB Europe Transparency and Consent Framework that will help the digital advertising industry interpret and comply with EU rules on data protection and privacy – notably the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). About IAB Europe IAB Europe is the European-level association for the digital marketing and advertising ecosystem. Its mission is to promote the development of this innovative sector and ensure its sustainability by shaping the regulatory environment, demonstrating the value digital advertising brings to Europe’s economy, to consumers and to the market, and developing and facilitating the uptake of harmonised business practices that take account of changing user expectations and enable digital brand advertising to scale in Europe. |
iabeurope.eu/tcf/ | CC BY 3.0 |
| 5 | privacyradius / gdpr-checklist Achieving GDPR Compliance shouldn’t feel like a struggle. This is a basic checklist you can use to harden your GDPR compliancy. If your organisation is determining the purpose of the storage or processing of personal information, it is considered a controller. If your organisation stores or processes personal data on behalf of another organisation, it is considered a processor. It is possible for your organisation to have both roles. Use the filter below to view only the relevant checklist items for your organisation. This list is far from a legal exhaustive document, it merely tries to help you overcome the struggle. |
gdprchecklist.io/ | CC BY-NC-SA |
