See Communication Tools.
Structure: Reorganized into tiers — Recommended for Privacy, Better Privacy, Good Privacy, Privacy Caution, Defunct/Offline. Alphabetized within each tier.
Jurisdiction flags: Added country flags for ownership/legal home across entries.
- Examples added/updated: Signal 🇺🇸, Element 🇬🇧, Threema 🇨🇭, Wire 🇨🇭, Viber 🇯🇵, Telegram 🇷🇺, Slack/Teams/Zoom/Meet 🇺🇸, Zoho Cliq 🇮🇳, AnyDesk 🇩🇪, BeamYourScreen 🇩🇪, FaceFlow 🇨🇦, Fleep 🇪🇪, LumoFlow 🇫🇮, Mobilimeet 🇸🇪, Digital Samba 🇪🇸.
Additions (Recommended for Privacy): Briar 🌐, Session 🇨🇭, Tox 🌐.
Telegram 🇷🇺: Entry clarified — default “cloud” chats not E2EE; proprietary MTProto; phone‑number requirement; metadata/IP logging; Russian jurisdiction exposure.
WhatsApp 🇺🇸: Kept out of higher tiers; note retained — E2EE by default, Meta ownership, metadata/backups exposure.
MeWe 🇺🇸: Moved to Privacy Caution; language updated to “proprietary; ad/tracking‑free claim not independently verified.”
Defunct/Offline: Confirmed list (Campfire, iLinc, iWowWe, ooVoo, Simple Signal, Encrypted Cloud).
Books and Reading
Organization: Grouped by purpose; alphabetized within groups.
Additions: Libby, Libro.fm, Scribd, Apple Books, Google Play Books, Kobo Books, Audible, Wattpad, Bookly, Basmo, Story Shorts, Media365, AIReader, Aldiko Next, Epic!.
Defunct/retired: Marked Lendle and Feedbooks (shutdown noted), plus Shelfari, BookArmy, ReadItSwapIt in the defunct section.
Cleanup: Removed duplicates; standardized one‑line descriptions.
Data Analytics Tools
Additions: Metabase, Preset (Managed Superset), Redash, Rill, Sigma, ThoughtSpot (incl. Mode), Streamlit (incl. Snowflake native), Plotly Dash, Panel (HoloViz), Observable Framework, OpenSearch Dashboards, MotherDuck, dbt Semantic Layer, Cube (semantic layer), Noteable, NocoDB, Posit (RStudio IDE/Shiny/Quarto).
Corrections: “Google Data Studio” → “Looker Studio”; removed duplicate entries.
Archives
- Hygiene: Standardized descriptions; confirmed CLI/SDK/self‑host options (e.g., wayback tools) are labeled consistently.
Citation
@article{infoepi_lab2025,
author = {{InfoEpi Lab}},
publisher = {Information Epidemiology Lab},
title = {Communication {Tools} {Updated}},
journal = {InfoEpi Lab},
date = {2025-08-10},
url = {https://infoepi.org/posts/2025/08/10-release-notes-tools.html},
langid = {en}
}