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People will not (and should not) use tech that's untrustworthy. Too many tech projects, including civic tech projects, have abused user privacy and/or failed users in providing a secure user experience. Anyone advocating for increasing digitization of government, social benefits, or public conversation should invest in strong digital security and privacy-respecting approach from the onset and on an ongoing basis, as this area evolves rapidly.

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Nothing2Hide

Nothing2Hide

France 🇫🇷

Nous fournissons aux journalistes et activistes des services d'urgence permettant de faire face aux menaces et à la surveillance numérique : hotline, formations, outils de contournement de la censure, analyse de périphériques.

Shaping HerCity

Shaping HerCity

Dublin, Ireland

Civic tech and urban safety project that uses participatory research and co-design with women and LGBTQ+ communities to map safe/unsafe spaces and build community-driven tools— including a safe space certification, anti-harassment interventions, and a digital platform for trusted mobility, peer support, and collective care.

Raft Foundation

Raft Foundation is a US-based 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor that brings communities together to support neighbors in need through:

Digital Rights Community Global Gathering

The Global Gathering brings together groups from around the world that are working on the most urgent technology-related challenges affecting human rights, social justice, civil society, and journalism at the local, regional and global levels.

Deep Dive Data

Deep Dive Data

Zimbabwe 🇿🇼

Our comprehensive database analyzes banking and financial apps to reveal what data they collect and how they use it.

Humanitarian Futures for Messaging Apps

The ICRC, together with The Engine Room and Block Party, produced this report on the uses of messaging apps in humanitarian situations.

Find A Bed Tonight

Find A Bed Tonight

Johnston County, North Carolina, USA

Free, open-source platform that gives homeless outreach workers real-time shelter bed availability and lets them hold a bed in three taps.

Firefox built-in VPN

Firefox built-in VPN

Mozilla, East Evelyn Avenue, Mountain View, CA

A future version of the browser will include 50GB a month of free, trustworthy VPN services (covering browser traffic only, not device)

Mullvad Browser

Mullvad Browser

Gothenberg, Sweden

The Mullvad Browser is a privacy-focused web browser developed in collaboration between Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project.

Neocypherpunk Summit

Neocypherpunk Summit

Funkhaus Berlin

Gathering of activists, hackers, developer and freedom fighter with shared goal of more free society, digital freedom and privacy.

Purge Palantir

Purge Palantir

United States of America 🇺🇸

Join the nationwide campaign to defend our privacy and stop Palantir.

Mullvad VPN

Mullvad VPN

Gothenberg, Sweden

Free the internet from mass surveillance and censorship.

Competing Visions Shared Futures (CPDP)

As a world-leading multidisciplinary conference CPDP offers the cutting edge in legal, regulatory, academic and technological development in privacy and data protection.

/e/OS

/e/OS

Oakland

/e/OS is an open-source mobile operating system paired with carefully selected applications.

Brightlines

Brightlines protects people and organizations from real-world harm caused by online exposure.

Phreeli

Phreeli

United States of America 🇺🇸

Finally, a wireless service that wants to know as little about you as possible. Your privacy is Phreeli's priority.

Proton

Proton

Switzerland (Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera) 🇨🇭

Communicate and browse. Privately.

Proton VPN

Proton VPN

Switzerland (Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera) 🇨🇭

Free to use, ultra-secure VPN governed by strict data privacy laws

Confer

Confer

United States of America 🇺🇸

Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike's new open source, end-to-end encrypted AI chat

Safe

Safe

Berkman Center For Internet, Everett Street, Cambridge, MA

The Safe software created by Psst is a secure digital safe haven for information.

Trends (Who Targets Me)

Trends from Who Targets Me makes navigating and understanding digital political advertising data easier. It operates in over 60 countries, covering 150,000+ advertisers from more than 1,000 parties and groups.

Global Privacy Assembly

Global Privacy Assembly

Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines

The Assembly seeks to provide leadership at international level in data protection and privacy. It does this by connecting the efforts of more than 130 data protection and privacy authorities from across the globe.

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog (KEV)

For the benefit of the cybersecurity community and network defenders—and to help every organization better manage vulnerabilities and keep pace with threat activity—CISA maintains the authoritative source of vulnerabilities that have been exploited in the wild.

Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT)

The Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT) is designed to measure the maturity, resiliency, and strength of an organization’s cybersecurity efforts.

Petty Propolis

Petty Propolis cultivates visionary resistance through poetry, literary workshops, anti-racism facilitation, and social justice initiatives.

The Digital Services Act

The Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act aim to create a safer digital space where the fundamental rights of users are protected and to establish a level playing field for businesses.

Iknowwhatyoudownload.com

Tool that shows your IP address and its association with torrent records

Bitpart

Bitpart is a one-to-many messaging tool that plugs into Signal. It was designed with rights defenders, activists and journalists operating in risky or repressive environments, and is intended for anyone needing to communicate with a large network safely over Signal.

Library Freedom Project

Library Freedom Project is a network of values-driven librarians working together to build information democracy.

Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA)

The DPIA process aims at providing assurance that controllers adequately address privacy and data protection risks of ‘risky’ processing operations.

Big Brother Watch

Big Brother Watch

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

Reclaiming privacy. Defending freedom.

Reflectacles

Privacy Eyewear & Sunglasses: Anti Facial Recognition Glasses since 2015.

Panama Playlists

"I found the real Spotify accounts of celebrities, politicians, and journalists."

Vulnerability Research Initiative (VRI)

Vulnerability Research Initiative (VRI)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

UK government's cybersecurity program working with internal and external experts to test its tech

VPN Trust Initiative

The VPN Trust Initiative (VTI) is an industry-led and member-driven consortium of VPN business leaders focused on improving digital safety for consumers by building understanding, strengthening trust, and mitigating risk for VPN users.

Ciberseguras

Este es un espacio para aprender, protegernos y organizarnos juntas, utiliza los filtros para encontrar lo que estás buscando.

Pixi Bücher

You can't start early enough – that's why we have short Pixi books on the topics of privacy and transparency for kindergarten-age children.

Report algorithmic discrimination!

AlgorithmWatch's new campaign seeks to crowdsource reports of algorithmic discrimination. If you've experienced it or know someone who has, you can report it

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