HERVé 5  Privoxy doesn't dial home, what you detect is all the guys Privoxy allows out!

For instance, if you have a widget that'll "dial home" (or, more often, connect to a server, for instance meteo...) as all widgets are html based their requests will be channeled through Privoxy, and Snitch will tell you Privoxy tries to connect here and there.

Indeed Privoxy being a filter on outgoing requests, it is somehow a supreme unfairness to tell it "dials home"...  
(Version 0.1.2.13)

NEONBLUE2  Privoxy is not dialling home. Whenever an app tries to access the net it's hitting Privoxy and telling it where to go. Then when Privoxy tries to go somewhere it hits Little Snitch.

Whenever I turn Privoxy off I run into the problem that none of my browsers have been cleared to go through Little Snitch. It's because Privoxy deals with net traffic.

I'd thought you'd have realised the moment you denied and the net stopped working.  
(Version 0.1.2.19)

THREEDEE912  -_-

Because Privoxy and Tor are trying to anonymize your surfing, they obviously have to connect to the internet in order it to work! Any program you use gets routed through Privoxy/Tor, which then get routed through a bunch of different servers around the world to make it very difficult to determine for someone to determine where a connection came from. This is all the 'phoning home' you see (although it's not phoning home at all).  
(Version 0.2.0.31)