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Maple Linux

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Bartlomiej Mika, Rodolfo Martinez 2025 Southwold, Quebec GPL-2 v1.4.7

Maple Linux is a Canadian maintained, Debian based distro. It ships with Cinnamon DE for an easy transition for Windows users, and includes additional security and privacy enhancements out of box. Learn more at maplelinux.ca

4.0 (1)
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Freenet

Networking
Ian Clarke (primarily), Canadian contributors 2000 Edinburgh / Toronto, Ontario GPL-2.0 v0.7.5

Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication and publishing. Ian Clarke, whose work has strong Canadian roots, created the project. Canadian privacy advocates and technical contributors have been essential to the project's ongoing development and adoption.

#privacy #P2P #censorship-resistance #networking #anonymity
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Sanitize PII

Media & Design
Canadian Digital Service 2025 Ottawa, Ontario MIT

TypeScript module for removing personally identifiable information from text.

#privacy #pii #typescript
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Canonym

Development Tools
Statistics Canada Ottawa, Ontario MIT

Python anonymization package from Statistics Canada for privacy-protection workflows. It supports identification and treatment of sensitive information, helping analysts prepare safer datasets for sharing or processing.

#privacy #anonymization #python #data
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Simplify Privacy Statements V2

Communication
Canadian Digital Service Ottawa, Ontario MIT

Starter-app based prototype for simplifying privacy statements in government services. It explores how plain-language content and service design can make privacy notices easier to understand.

#privacy #service-design #nunjucks #prototype
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