| Website | hayst.ac |
| Blog | hayproj.tumblr.com |
| @hayproj | |
| Category | Search |
| Phone | +1.480.284.9941 |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 10/08 |
| Description | Privacy Through Chaos |
Hayst.ac, formerly known as the Haystack Project, is an initiative for creating tools to obfuscate online search queries with machine-generated queries that are designed to be as close to indistinguishable from the human generated ones as possible. This is ultimately to discourage the use of search histories as a source of user profiling and incrimination.
Proposed search apps designed by Hayst.ac are targeted for use by political and other activists. Search terms would be derived from sources that would be prone to “red flags” while also drawing in content from mainstream sources to create a composite mix of tracks that would make it difficult to discern the subjects of interest for a human user.
Haystack Project / TrackMeNot Panel Discussion at the 2010 Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference. San Jose, California.
Added: 6/23/10
