I am a forensic analyst by trade and a writer and lifelong gamer in my free time. I enjoy learning how to leverage open-source tools to run the technological processes that underlie my life. I am a big fan of Android and Linux because they offer me the flexibility to run things any way I want with very little oversight from big corporations. FOSS is a great deal!

When I'm not geeking out over computers and tech, you can find me reading philosophy, history and great literature from all ages or writing something. I have a Substack page dedicated to philosophy and technology where you can read about the books I enjoy, the tech I play with and some of the cool forensic projects I do. 

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Learning the Language of Privacy: Language Learning Apps and Privacy

Language learning apps are used by millions of people around the world. Many of these of these apps operate on a freemium model and pay for their free versions with ads. The infrastructure for these ads can possibly bleed into the infrastructure of the paid versions. This study seeks to verify, using open-source tools, that the paid versions of Duolingo, Busuu, and Memrise are not broadcasting user data to advertisers.

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