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.
Block Party app
Consumer tools for online safety & anti-harassment. Automatically hide unwanted tweets & mute the trolls (review later, but only if you want!).
InternetLab
InternetLab is an independent research center that aims to foster academic debate around issues involving law and technology, especially internet policy
JAAKLAC initiative
Reseaching and advocating for critical digital education and youth participation from Latin America and the Majority World
Data Privacy Day
An international effort to empower individuals and business to respect privacy, safeguard data and enable trust.
Citizen Lab Summer Institute
The Citizen Lab Summer Institute (CLSI) provides a unique opportunity to meet a diverse group of researchers, practitioners, and advocates and develop new and exciting research that addresses pressing...
Project Shield
Project Shield uses Google’s infrastructure to protect independent news sites from distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), a type of digital attack that exploits thousands or even millions of co...
The Glass Room
a three week pop up program inducing over 30 commissioned artworks, and a jam packed program of guest speakers.
Guardian Project
Guardian Project creates easy to use secure apps, open-source software libraries, and customized mobile devices that can be used around the world by any person looking to protect their communications...
Red Team Lab at Open Tech Fund
The lab focuses on improving the software security of projects that advance OTF’s Internet freedom goals by ensuring that code, data, and people behind the tools have what they need to create a safer...
Rarenet
Rarenet runs joint activities that aim to improve coordinated response, education and advocacy in cyber security threats affecting civil society and activism online.
Mission Billion Challenge
to surface practical and cost-effective solutions on ‘privacy by design’ features that can be embedded into digital identification systems and empowering users with their data.
CV Dazzle
Camouflage from face detection
Outline
Outline makes it easy for news organizations to set up a virtual private network (VPN) on their own server.
Blacklight
A privacy tool that lets you scan any website and see how you are being surveilled
Mozilla Foundation
Established in 2003, guided by the Mozilla Manifesto, the Mozilla Foundation believes the Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible to all.
Small Media
Small Media is a London-based action lab, providing digital research, training and advocacy solutions to support the work of civil society actors that provides assistance to at-risk communities global...
Level-up
Resources for the global digital safety training community.
Digital Integrity Fellowship
The Digital Integrity Fellowship Program (DIFP) provides fixed monthly stipends to individuals capable of addressing short-term and long-term threats to freedom of expression online.
Mailfence
Secure and private email service with collaboration suite.
Data Justice Lab
The Data Justice Lab examines the intricate relationship between datafication and social justice, highlighting the politics and impacts of data-driven processes and big data
Secure Messaging? More Like A Secure Mess.
EFF Guide to Messaging
Open Internet for Democracy
The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), the National Democratic Institute (NDI), and the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) are facilitating an initiative to identify and...
OpenTrustwire
Trustwire gives you strong end-to-end encryption while keeping it simple to use. Trustwire is web-based, so users don't need to download or install apps, and they can manage or exchange files whether...
Digital Rights Foundation
Helping make the internet safer and more accessible
Information Controls Fellowship
The Information Controls Fellowship Program (ICFP) cultivates research, outputs, and creative collaboration on topics related to repressive internet censorship and surveillance.
Center for Digital Resilience
Building resilient systems to keep civil society safe online
Project Defenders Sustainable Emergency Grants
Any NGO, human rights or media organisation that faces threats due to the work they are doing, can apply for this grant.
Social Media Exchange (SMEX)
Social Media Exchange (SMEX) is a media advocacy and development organization with more than 20 years’ experience in commercial, development, and postconflict media environments
Outline VPN offered in Zimbabwe
CITE in Zimbabwe and Code for Africa have partnered to make Outline from Jigsaw available to news organisations and CSOs. It means VPN can be rolled out on their own servers to connect to the internet...
Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab at Open Tech Fund
OTF’s Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab offers secure usability and user-interface assistance to Internet freedom and digital security tools to help them recognise and solve usability challenges...
Colnodo
Digital security training and resources in Colombia
Gender and Technology Resources wiki
This wiki is dedicated to document initiatives around gender and tech, privacy and digital security that are organised by participants to the trainings and activities related to the program “Securing...
The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)
The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) is a free software project that aims to empower decentralized efforts in increasing transparency of internet censorship around the world. You can ru...
Discotechs
At the Data DiscoTech young people learned about what data is, unique ways to create data visualizations, and how to collect and analyze data.
Privacy International
We’re here to protect democracy, defend people's dignity, and demand accountability from the powerful institutions who breach public trust.
Fundación Karisma
Organización de la sociedad civil que trabaja en la promoción de los derechos humanos en el mundo digital
Digital Attack Map
Digital Attack Map visualizes the most powerful DDoS attacks happening in the world right now
Calyx Institute
Our mission is to educate the public about privacy in digital communications and to develop tools that anyone can use. By embracing "privacy by design," we help make digital security and privacy more...
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity
Facebook Tracking Exposed
a project to improve the transparency behind Facebook’s algorithms
ICRC Rules on Personal Data Protection
The ICRC responds quickly and efficiently to help people affected by armed conflict. We also respond to disasters in conflict zones, because the effects of a disaster are compounded if a country is al...
Briar Project
Secure messaging, anywhere
Guide to organizational security
We partnered with the Ford Foundation to look at how civil society can strengthen their digital security, what and who is out there to support them, and how they can develop better digital security pr...
Digital Defense Fund
We are Digital Defense Fund, and we do digital security for the abortion access movement.
Safetag
SAFETAG adapts traditional penetration testing and risk assessment methodologies to be relevant to smaller non-profit organizations.
Data Harm Record
The aim of this document is to provide a running record of ‘data harms’, harms that have been caused by uses of big data. The goal is to document and learn from where things have gone wrong.
Cities Coalition for Digital Rights
We, the undersigned cities, formally come together to form the Cities Coalition for Digital Rights, to protect and uphold human rights on the internet at the local and global level.
eclips.is
eclips.is is a free, lightweight platform where you can launch your (virtual) servers. It is funded by Open Technology Fund (OTF) to facilitate an easy accessible cloud infrastructure.
Digital Defenders Partnership
We support Human Rights Defenders facing digital threats and work to strengthen local rapid response networks.
Cloudflare for Campaigns
It is designed to make it easier for all political campaigns and parties, especially those with small teams and limited resources, to get access to cybersecurity services.