Python Privacy

Open-source Python projects categorized as Privacy

Top 23 Python Privacy Projects

  1. quivr

    Opiniated RAG for integrating GenAI in your apps ๐Ÿง  Focus on your product rather than the RAG. Easy integration in existing products with customisation! Any LLM: GPT4, Groq, Llama. Any Vectorstore: PGVector, Faiss. Any Files. Anyway you want.

    Project mention: Ask HN: Local RAG with private knowledge base | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-29
  2. CodeRabbit

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  3. hosts

    ๐Ÿ”’ Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.

    Project mention: Digital Hygiene | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-19

    Why use NextDNS when you can use a lightweight, native solution[1]? Sorry if this sounds condescending but I need less services and not more.

    [1]: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

  4. ungoogled-chromium

    Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

    Project mention: Digital Hygiene | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-19

    Chromium is Chrome with "less" (but, still substantial) Google. ungoogled-chromium[1] is Chromium with no Google.

    [1] https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

  5. macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide

    Guide to securing and improving privacy on macOS

  6. PySyft

    Perform data science on data that remains in someone else's server

    Project mention: Day 1 : Daily Notes for #30DayOfFLCode | dev.to | 2024-11-20

    PySyft: An open-source library developed by OpenMined that provides tools for building secure, privacy-preserving federated learning systems using PyTorch. Link

  7. adversarial-robustness-toolbox

    Adversarial Robustness Toolbox (ART) - Python Library for Machine Learning Security - Evasion, Poisoning, Extraction, Inference - Red and Blue Teams

  8. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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  9. tribler

    Privacy enhanced BitTorrent client with P2P content discovery

    Project mention: Tribler: An attack-resilient micro-economy for media | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-25

    I noticed that too:

    https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki/%22TrustChain%22-arc...

    But not much else about it. Would be interested to read more. Using torrent seeding as a form of Proof-of-Work that rewards tokens is actually an interesting use case for cryptocurrency, and not as energy-hungry.

  10. presidio

    Context aware, pluggable and customizable data protection and de-identification SDK for text and images

    Project mention: Navigating the Cybersecurity Maze: Challenges and Solutions in AI Agent Development | dev.to | 2025-02-26

    PII and Secret Detection: This involves identifying and removing personally identifiable information (PII) or secrets from the data. Tools like Presidio and GLiNER are great for this purpose. The following Python code demonstrates how to use Guardrails to detect PII and secrets in text:

  11. ProxyBroker

    Proxy [Finder | Checker | Server]. HTTP(S) & SOCKS :performing_arts:

  12. bleachbit

    BleachBit system cleaner for Windows and Linux

    Project mention: BleachBit is a free and open-source disk space cleaner | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-15
  13. Shynet

    Modern, privacy-friendly, and detailed web analytics that works without cookies or JS.

    Project mention: Show HN: Vince โ€“ A self hosted alternative to Google Analytics | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-28

    can we compare it with Shynet? https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet

    Shynet is similarly self hostable, and has a tiny footprint..

  14. ciso-assistant-community

    CISO Assistant is a one-stop-shop for GRC, covering Risk, AppSec and Compliance/Audit Management and supporting +70 frameworks worldwide with auto-mapping: NIST CSF, ISO 27001, SOC2, CIS, PCI DSS, NIS2, CMMC, PSPF, GDPR, HIPAA, Essential Eight, NYDFS-500, DORA, NIST AI RMF, 800-53, 800-171, CyFun, CJIS, AirCyber, NCSC, ECC, SCF and so much more

    Project mention: CISO Assistant | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-04
  15. portainer-templates

    ๐Ÿšข 500+ 1-click Portainer app templates

  16. email2phonenumber

    A OSINT tool to obtain a target's phone number just by having his email address

    Project mention: Integrating Email Aliases with Bitwarden | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-08

    Here's a fun one: https://www.martinvigo.com/email2phonenumber/

    The more places you use the same email address, the greater your exposure.

  17. openrecall

    OpenRecall is a fully open-source, privacy-first alternative to proprietary solutions like Microsoft's Windows Recall. With OpenRecall, you can easily access your digital history, enhancing your memory and productivity without compromising your privacy.

    Project mention: Memos โ€“ An open source Rewinds / Recall | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-17

    Another similar project: https://github.com/openrecall/openrecall

  18. privacy

    Library for training machine learning models with privacy for training data

  19. noisy

    Simple random DNS, HTTP/S internet traffic noise generator

  20. DataProfiler

    What's in your data? Extract schema, statistics and entities from datasets

  21. NomadNet

    Communicate Freely

    Project mention: Nomad, communicate off-grid mesh, forward secrecy and extreme privacy | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-15
  22. OpenWPM

    A web privacy measurement framework

  23. no-google

    Completely block Google and its services

  24. tf-encrypted

    A Framework for Encrypted Machine Learning in TensorFlow

  25. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Privacy projects in Python? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 quivr 37,551
2 hosts 27,715
3 ungoogled-chromium 21,834
4 macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide 21,585
5 whoogle-search 10,577
6 PySyft 9,638
7 adversarial-robustness-toolbox 5,130
8 tribler 4,955
9 presidio 4,267
10 ProxyBroker 3,929
11 bleachbit 3,313
12 Shynet 2,995
13 ciso-assistant-community 2,761
14 portainer-templates 2,338
15 email2phonenumber 2,284
16 openrecall 2,076
17 privacy 1,954
18 noisy 1,699
19 DataProfiler 1,470
20 NomadNet 1,360
21 OpenWPM 1,352
22 no-google 1,324
23 tf-encrypted 1,222

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