This repository needs a higher standard for privacy requirements

This has been a concern of mine for a while, but I didn't know how to appropriately bring it up without feeling unproductive. That said, the project is in a position where more tools are added that are potentially risky than actually privacy respecting.

Many people are using this list as a reference as a place to find privacy-related tools in their lives, but I've seen a lot of behavior that is hard to confront directly in these PRs. Amongst these issues are the following:

• Many people post their own projects here as promotional material and are accepted when there are direct privacy concerns in their source code.
• Many people post projects here that they think are privacy respecting without having done any sort of audit. There are tools in this list that have actual tracking software in them.
• Many times there are projects that claim to be "open source", but when you look at the "source code" (or lack-thereof) they are just binary blobs with no associated code.

This is very dangerous, as violations of peoples' privacy can lead to many issues, everything from social concerns to people dying. Privacy is very important, and - with 20,000 stars - I think its time for this project to take the changes sent a little bit more seriously.

I bring this up because I think its time to think of a way to properly audit recommendations in this list, both through requiring more upfront work from personal audits of people posting software here as well as researching the potential for automated checks - both in pull requests and daily action runs against the main branch.

I'll wait to hear back on thoughts from contributors here, and will try to do a rough pass through some projects to reference with major issues in the comments here.

I also want to say that I appreciate all the work that has gone into this project and that I hope this doesn't seem like a negative post. My goal is to help improve the project as a whole.

Thanks for reading this and for your consideration in helping make the project safer for everyone!