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Surveillance projects on GitHub

Personal privacy protection against surveillance and monitoring risks.

As of , the most-starred Surveillance projects on GitHub are personal-security-checklist (22.6K stars), ZLMediaKit (17.6K stars) and mvt (15.4K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 10 Surveillance repositories with 83.1K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was Fieldwatch, with +27 stars in a day.

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+83Stars in a day
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 17

+27

Fieldwatch

OffGridPete/Fieldwatch · ★ 3.9K

Fieldwatch is a receive-only Android app that passively listens for nearby Wi-Fi access points and Bluetooth LE advertisements, so you can see what wireless devices are around you.

+22

Vela

PimpinPumpkin/Vela · ★ 2K

Vela is a degoogled maps and turn-by-turn navigation app for Android that runs with zero Google Play Services. It draws the basemap from open data (OpenStreetMap, Overture Maps, AllThePlaces) and only asks Google's public web endpoints, anonymously and per-device, for things open data lacks like live traffic, reviews and photos.

+17

mvt

mvt-project/mvt · ★ 15.4K

MVT (Mobile Verification Toolkit) is a collection of forensic utilities that help gather and analyze traces on Android and iOS devices to identify a potential compromise, originally built by Amnesty International's Security Lab during the Pegasus Project.

+8

personal-security-checklist

lissy93/personal-security-checklist · ★ 22.6K

A community-maintained checklist of 300+ tips for protecting your digital security and privacy, curated by Alicia Sykes (Lissy93) and kept current for 2026.

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10 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · lissy93/personal-security-checklist

    personal-security-checklist

    A community-maintained checklist of 300+ tips for protecting your digital security and privacy, curated by Alicia Sykes (Lissy93) and kept current for 2026.

    22.6K
  2. #2 · ZLMediaKit/ZLMediaKit

    ZLMediaKit

    A high-performance, production-grade streaming media server framework written in C++11: it takes in live streams and serves them across many protocols, converting between them on the fly.

    17.6K
  3. #3 · mvt-project/mvt

    mvt

    MVT (Mobile Verification Toolkit) is a collection of forensic utilities that help gather and analyze traces on Android and iOS devices to identify a potential compromise, originally built by Amnesty International's Security Lab during the Pegasus Project.

    15.4K
  1. 4

    Shadowbroker

    11.3KBigBodyCobain/Shadowbroker · Python

    ShadowBroker is a decentralized OSINT dashboard that aggregates 60+ live intelligence feeds (aircraft, ships, satellites, CCTV, earthquakes, GPS jamming, scanners, mesh radio, and more) into one real-time map interface.

  2. 5

    device-activity-tracker

    5.2Kgommzystudio/device-activity-tracker · TypeScript

    This is a proof-of-concept security research tool that monitors WhatsApp and Signal users by measuring the Round-Trip Time (RTT) of message delivery receipts, revealing whether a target's device is actively in use, idle, or offline.

  3. 6

    privacyguides.org

    4.3Kprivacyguides/privacyguides.org · Markdown

    Privacy Guides is a non-profit, community-run website and knowledge base that explains digital surveillance threats and recommends privacy and security tools to help people protect their data online.

  4. 7

    Fieldwatch

    3.9KOffGridPete/Fieldwatch · Kotlin

    Fieldwatch is a receive-only Android app that passively listens for nearby Wi-Fi access points and Bluetooth LE advertisements, so you can see what wireless devices are around you.

  5. 8

    Vela

    2KPimpinPumpkin/Vela · Kotlin

    Vela is a degoogled maps and turn-by-turn navigation app for Android that runs with zero Google Play Services. It draws the basemap from open data (OpenStreetMap, Overture Maps, AllThePlaces) and only asks Google's public web endpoints, anonymously and per-device, for things open data lacks like live traffic, reviews and photos.

  6. 9

    biointelligence-agent

    508ray-r-ren/biointelligence-agent · TypeScript

    It is an AI agent harness that builds a live, evolving 'biosecurity world' around any target you define, continuously gathering evidence and recommending protective actions.

  7. 10

    Real-Time-Person-Elderly-Fall-Detection-System

    275AwaisShah75/Real-Time-Person-Elderly-Fall-Detection-System · Python

    It's an edge AI computer vision system that detects falls in real time, especially for elderly people, even when partially hidden behind furniture, while avoiding false alarms from normal activities like sitting or sleeping.

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