Digital security and privacy
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.
None Of Your Business (NOYB)
NOYB enforces your right to privacy everyday
OONI Probe
Global community measuring Internet censorship since 2012
Center for Digital Democracy
The Center for Digital Democracy’s mission is to ensure that digital technologies serve and strengthen democratic values, institutions and processes. CDD strives to safeguard privacy and civil and hum...
Panoptic - Facial Recognition Technologies Tracker
IFF’s Project Panoptic aims to bring transparency and accountability to the relevant government stakeholders involved in the deployment and implementation of facial recognition technology (FRT) projec...
Authoritarian Tech Newsletter
From biometrics to surveillance — when people in power abuse technology, the rest of us suffer. Written by Ellery Biddle.
Carceral Tech Resistance Network
ctrn is a space of convening for those organizing against the design, experimentation, and deployment of carceral technologies.
Cybersecurity Handbook for Civil Society Organizations
A guide for civil society organizations looking to get started on a cybersecurity plan
CDR Link
People can request digital security help using their everyday messaging apps. We provide secure Signal, Whatsapp & Telegram channels for your community.
Location Privacy BETA
privacy filters for shared location links
ProofMode
Turn your photos and videos into secure, signed visual evidence
Save
Save (Share Archive Verify Encrypt) by OpenArchive enables you to safely preserve, organize, and share your mobile media. Designed with and for newsrooms, human rights defenders, and archivists, Save...
Waterbear
Disinformation is threatening our ability to get credible facts. Built on our trusted technology stack, Waterbear helps you fight back.
Digital Wellness Check
Risk Assessments Made Beautiful! A framework and methodology to holistically assess an organization’s digital health, highlight areas of excellence, and provide a visual roadmap of recommended improve...
PixelKnot: Hidden Messages
Have a secret that you want to share? Why not hide it in a picture?
Filterwatch
Filterwatch aims to provide the information and tools to enable journalists, human rights advocates, and campaigners to hold Iranian policy-makers to account, and to advocate for a free and open inter...
Identifying Potential Data Risks and Harms
We set ourselves a task to create a short, simple, and practical resource to help teams who are designing projects to identify potential risks and harms.
Bits of Freedom
Bits of Freedom was founded in 1999. We influence policies and legislation to support an open and fair information society.
The Limits to Digital Consent: Understanding the risks of ethical consent and data collection for underrepresented communities
A 2021 report by SimplySecure and The New Design Congress
Smart cities and data protection: possible routes
InternetLab, ARTICLE 19 and LAPIN launch a policy paper with recommendations on smart cities and personal data protection.
JusticeAI
JusticeAI is an open source platform and suite of tools that strategically apply machine learning, computer vision, and metadata analysis to sort, identify, and analyze digital media.
Terms of Service; Didn't Read
Summarizes tech terms and conditions in a more legible format
SocialTIC
SocialTIC es una organización sin fines de lucro dedicada a la investigación, formación, acompañamiento y promoción de la tecnología digital e información para fines sociales.Conoce nuestros proyectos...
Quiero Mis Datos
Una herramienta para conocer qué saben las empresas sobre vos
The Empower Rangers
The Empower Rangers es una creación animada pensada y ejecutada por RedesAyuda y el primero, de un grupo de ellos, es el Empower Ranger Azul.
Cyber Collective
We empower people to think critically about their relationship with technology and inspire a more socially responsible future.
MetaCert
MetaCert tells you which links are safe and which websites you can trust.
Iraqi Journalism Rights Defense Association الجمعية العراقية للدفاع عن حقوق الصحفيين
منشور الزميل عادل فاخر
What the Future Wants
What the Future Wants is an interactive youth focused exhibition that presents different perspectives on technology from the personal, to the political, to the planetary.
Coalizão Direitos na Rede
The Rights in the Network Coalition is a network of entities that brings together more than 40 academic and civil society organizations in defense of digital rights, with the main themes of action: ac...
Al Sur
"Al Sur" is a consortium of organizations that work in civil society and academia in Latin America and that seek with their joint work to strengthen human rights in the digital environment of the regi...
The Influence Industry Project
Learn about, discover resources, and explore research on the industry using our personal data to influence citizens in political campaigns.
The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP)
S.T.O.P. at NYU fights to end discriminatory surveillance.
Orbot: Proxy with Tor
Enhance your privacy and break through firewalls.
NYU Tandon Cybersecurity for Democracy
Cybersecurity for Democracy is a research-based effort to expose online threats to our social fabric – and recommend how to counter them. We are part of the Center for Cybersecurity at NYU.
Haven
Protect personal spaces and possessions without compromising privacy
Tor Browser for Android
Tor Browser for Android Experience real private browsing without tracking, surveillance, or censorship.
Orfox
A privacy-focused web browser for use with Orbot, based on Tor Browser
Defending Digital Campaigns
Defending Digital Campaigns makes our political process more secure by providing political parties and campaigns with knowledge, products and services to defend themselves from cyber threats and att...
Deflect
DDoS protection for civil society groups
Permission Slip
One app to take back control of your data
Digital Freedom Fund Grants
The Digital Freedom Fund supports strategic litigation on digital rights in Europe that contributes to advancing human rights in the digital context.
How The New York Times Thinks About Your Privacy
A guide to the news company's data usage
AWO
We’re a new agency working across the world to shape, apply and enforce data rights. We have lawyers, policy experts, technology analysts and applied ethicists working out of offices in London, Brusse...
Acción por la Justicia Algorítmica (AxJA)
La coalición Acción por la Justicia Algorítmica (AxJA) se crea para desafiar la falta de control democrático, transparencia y rendición de cuentas en el uso y adquisición de sistemas de toma de decisi...
Ban Surveillance Advertising
A US-based campaign
Digital Safety Kit
A short guide to help keep journalists and their sources safe
Círculo
Keep yourself and your community safe with Círculo, an app easy to use that allows you to send check-ins and urgent alerts in a fast and private way.
1Password for democracy
Free 1Password accounts for people working on behalf of democracy
Fight for the Future
We are a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists who have been behind the largest online protests in human history, channeling Internet outrage into political power to win public int...
*privacy not included
Mozilla Foundation's annual naughty and nice list of consumer tech's privacy policies