leinelissen / aeon

📡 Scan the internet for your personal information and modify or remove it

📡 Scan the internet for your personal information and modify or remove it

What is Aeon?

📡  Ever wondered what personal information is scattered around the internet? Aeon scans popuplar platforms for your personal information and (almost) automatically retrieves it.

👀  Use Aeon to download, archive and visualise your personal information.

❌  Don't agree with the data Facebook (or another platform) knows about you? Generate a request for modification or deletion with the click of a button!

Installing Aeon

Aeon is available for Windows, macOS, apt and yum! Download the application here and follow the instructions on the download page.

Not sure how to start using Aeon? Follow the Getting Started guide for detailed instructions.

How does it work?

All companies worldwide are required to offer you access to all data they retain about you. But most of the time, this process is hard, convoluted, slow or all three at once! Aeon has rules for each platform that make requesting your personal information just a couple of clicks!

The resulting data is downloaded on your local computer for safekeeping. Often, data is formatted in machine-readable formats such as JSON and CSV. To make it easier to digest your personal information, Aeon visualises it for you.

Companies are not only required to grant access, they must respect your wishes too. This means you can require them to delete or modify the personal information they have. Aeon contains a generator for data subject rights emails, that help you take control of your personal data.

Supported Platforms

Aeon currently has native support for the following platforms:

• Facebook
• Instagram
• LinkedIn
• Spotify
• ...more coming soon

Want to see a particular platform added? Create a GitHub issue with the name of the particular provider.

Want to help out with adding new platforms? Providers are easily defined with a Provider config. Check out the documentation on Providers to find out how they work. You can always create a Pull Request

Contributing

Aeon is being developed out in the open. Have an idea for a feature or a suggestion for a new provider? Create a GitHub issue and tag me (@leinelissen) if you need any help.

Documentation

Using Aeon

You can find the latest build of Aeon over at the releases page. There's builds for Windows, macOS and Linux.

If you're feeling more adventurous, clone the repository and compile your own nightly build. The only dependency is NodeJS. Prepare the codebase and start a development build by running the following commands:

npm install
npm start

The Technical Stuff

Aeon is an Electron-based app, a mature platform for building JavaScript applications on the desktop. It is backed by a locally encrypted Git repository, made available through use of the excellent nodegit package.

A custom and modular back-end allows for tracking and retrieving data from multiple sources. This is done through retrieval from an API, asynchronous data requests or a combination of both. Parser logic then allows for extracting common data types from the resulting JSON or CSV.

aeon's Issues

[Question] Is data from WhatsApp also included, since WhatsApp is owned by Facebook?

Update:
No, it doesn't. There is no plausible way to do this.

Suggestion:
Could you make this happen?

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Windows persists background process on close

Even after quitting the app, a background process for the app still exists. This might be related to an event emitter for the 'close' event. This was originally created to prevent a window from being destroyed when it is closed by the user. It will probably need another check.

Switch to Redux and add event-based state

Move to a Redux state architecture, keeping a singular source for all main-managed data. Then, instead of every component pulling in their data individually, have the state-holding classes emit events whenever they are updated.

isomorphic-git performs poorly with huge number of files

With a huge number of files, isomorphic-git takes ages to parse a diff. It is probably best to switch to nodegit as it has a properly performant back-end.

Cannot load photos from disk when ENABLE_ENCRYPTION is true

As encryption already adds a hefty performance penalty to any Git operations, consider removing encryption altogether.

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Top right logo not being shown on Windows

[Enhancement] Support for Google and Microsoft

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Pre-existing data request is not always interpreted properly

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Add email functionality not working

Whenever I try to add my email nothing happens, the window responds by acting like the focus is being taken away from it but no other window or prompt appears

Only parse data requests when the user initiates it

Currently, completed data requests are parsed as soon as we know they are done. This causes login windows to randomly pop-up during use. We should fire a notification, let the user know they're done, and they can then initiate download themselves.

Add Provider, Username and UpdateType to commit message

Store the provider that provided the data, the username for the service and the updatetype (update/data request) in the commit message, so that we can properly associate them later.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20099671/can-additional-data-be-put-into-a-git-commit-object

Logged errors are rendered as undefined in Winston

Probably check out moving to a different stack as setting up Winston for proper logs is harder than it needs to be, e.g. https://github.com/pinojs/pino.

Shows photos from posts

This will likely require referring to the binary blobs on disk

Unable to launch Aeon Ubuntu 22.04

Hi there,

After installing Aeon using the latest deb package i am unable to launch it, after opening Aeon from terminal i get the following errors

Any help appreciated

Point users to the right place for erasing dat

E.g. LinkedIn doesn't accept emails, but points to a specific form: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/TS-DDF. It would be nice if providers contain the following data:

• Type of request channels: email, browser
• Storing the email-address in case of email
• Storing the URL in case of browser

We can then make the body text copyable and can automatically open the browser.

Cannot add email on macOS

On Intel macOS Monterey, clicking "Add new Gmail account" in Email Account settings just closes the dialog box with no further information.

Swiping to missing control becomes very slow and laggy to and from aeon until the app is closed.

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    at parseField (/app/node_modules/npm/lib/config/core.js:389:7)
    at /app/node_modules/npm/lib/config/core.js:330:24
    at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
    at Conf.add (/app/node_modules/npm/lib/config/core.js:328:23)
    at ConfigChain.addString (/app/node_modules/npm/node_modules/config-chain/index.js:244:8)
    at Conf.<anonymous> (/app/node_modules/npm/lib/config/core.js:316:10)
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/app/node_modules/npm/lib/npm.js:59
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Error: npm.load() required
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    at parseField (/app/node_modules/npm/lib/config/core.js:389:7)
    at /app/node_modules/npm/lib/config/core.js:330:24
    at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
    at Conf.add (/app/node_modules/npm/lib/config/core.js:328:23)
    at ConfigChain.addString (/app/node_modules/npm/node_modules/config-chain/index.js:244:8)
    at Conf.<anonymous> (/app/node_modules/npm/lib/config/core.js:316:10)
    at /app/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs/graceful-fs.js:123:16
/app/node_modules/npm/lib/npm.js:59
      throw new Error('npm.load() required')
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Error: npm.load() required
    at Object.get (/app/node_modules/npm/lib/npm.js:59:13)
    at process.errorHandler (/app/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/error-handler.js:208:32)
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NPM Error: Error: Failed to replace env in config: ${NPM_TOKEN}
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    at envReplace (/app/node_modules/npm/lib/config/core.js:411:12)
    at parseField (/app/node_modules/npm/lib/config/core.js:389:7)
    at /app/node_modules/npm/lib/config/core.js:330:24
    at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
    at Conf.add (/app/node_modules/npm/lib/config/core.js:328:23)
    at ConfigChain.addString (/app/node_modules/npm/node_modules/config-chain/index.js:244:8)
    at Conf.<anonymous> (/app/node_modules/npm/lib/config/core.js:316:10)
    at /app/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs/graceful-fs.js:123:16
/app/node_modules/npm/lib/npm.js:59
      throw new Error('npm.load() required')
      ^

Error: npm.load() required
    at Object.get (/app/node_modules/npm/lib/npm.js:59:13)
    at process.errorHandler (/app/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/error-handler.js:208:32)
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    at process._fatalException (internal/bootstrap/node.js:496:27)

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Can Aeon be used in the US?

This is a really cool project!

However, I live in the US, so if it only works it in the Europe then I obviously can't use it.

Swap homebrew schemas for schema.org

All types have currently been written on an ad-hoc basis, based on the types found in data dumps. In the spirit of standardisation it's probably best to adopt a semantic library for describing data types. Given the heavy current use of TypeScript, it is currently advisable to adopt https://schema.org in the form of schema-dts.

A Javascript error ocurred in the main process

When I download the application for apple silicon and run the application I get the following error:

These are the specifications of my computer:

Adopt React-router for panel-based navigation

It's probably best to be able to call specific screens from parts of the application. This means that we must encode all navigation parameters in routes, rather than keeping some of them in local component state.

Generate secure encryption keys

The encryption key is hardcoded for now. We should generate a safe, random key and store it in the OS-appropriate place with e.g. node-keytar.

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Windows 11 just a white screen in VMware

I'm just looking at a white screen in my VMware. I can't figure out what VMware could have to do with it, if anything. I am running Windows 11 Insider build, but again, it should work

. I rebooted, but same thing.

Add buttons for managing accounts

This should include the following:

• Reset data request (in case a current request has gone haywire)
• Remove account
• View data folder (in case it exists)

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