Defensive Lab Agency is a French company founded in 2018 by Esther Onfroy with the objective of providing expert services on digital security and software development to civil society organizations.

• Digital security and privacy
• Build something
• Cybersecurity

Google Sheet overview of guides to digital protection for human rights defenders, activists, journalists, and other at-risk communities

• guides

• Digital security and privacy
• Civic tech catalogs
• Cybersecurity

Plain language steps for digital security. Because protecting yourself helps keep your whole community safer.

• guides

• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

We’re a small cryptoparty and cat-enthusiast collective. We’ve held digital security workshops all over NYC, including the New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, Bluestockings, and more over the years.

• workshops

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information - this is not just the Federal Commissioner himself - it is above all a modern data protection supervisory authority. 

• Govtech
• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) is the national independent authority responsible for upholding the fundamental right of individuals in the EU to have their personal data protected.

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Digital security and privacy

We are a fictional service provider proposing five speculative data support services.

• Civic data
• Digital security and privacy
• Artistic interventions

Enabling and amplifying action for civic space and inclusive democracy

• Participatory democracy
• Digital security and privacy
• Needs assessment

Meta uses AI to find teens pretending to be adults and place them in more restricted Teen Accounts. Plus proactive notifications to their parents' accounts.

• youth
• Meta

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital security and privacy
• Civic features

Free antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11

• Microsoft

• Digital security and privacy

ARX is a comprehensive open source software for anonymizing sensitive personal data.

• Civic data
• Digital security and privacy
• General purpose open source tools

OONI Probe is a free and open source tool to help measure internet censorship.

• apps

• Digital security and privacy
• Crowdsourcing
• Circumvention tech

A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Connectivity

Norton and TechSoup offer knowledge and digital tools to protect survivors of domestic abuse, human trafficking, and sexual assault.

• domestic violence
• Gender Equality

• Digital security and privacy
• Nonprofit tech
• Cybersecurity

Backed by a group of civil society organisations supporting human rights defenders in Asia-Pacific, the DRAPAC VPN Project is designed to resist blocking by internet censors.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Circumvention tech

The NOTICE Coalition (No Tech Criminalization in Education) is a national network of advocates, researchers and organizers building a movement to end police surveillance in schools and defend youth justice in the digital age.

• youth
• surveillance
• criminal justice

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Partner networks and coalitions

Provides guidance and tips on how every day people can enhance their personal privacy and security, minimizing their digital footprints.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Newsletters

This new badge is designed to highlight apps that prioritize user privacy and safety, help users make more informed choices about the VPN apps they use, and build confidence in the apps they ultimately download.

• apps
• Google

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Civic features

For MASA AL2, the lab will test the public version of the app (available in the Play Store) and provide assessment feedback directly to developers, including remediation steps for any flagged issues.

• apps
• Google

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Data schemas and standards

Las empresas tienen que darte acceso a tus datos y corregirlos o incluso eliminarlos si es necesario. Como una organización sin fines de lucro, te ayudamos a ejercer esos derechos – gratis y sin necesidad de registrarte.

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data rights

Você tem direito à privacidade !

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data rights

Companies have to give you access to your data and correct or even delete them if necessary. As a non-profit association, we help you use those rights – free of charge and registration, of course.

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data rights

U heeft het recht op privacy!

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data rights

Public Comment period for emerging place-based tech deployed in San José

• city

• Govtech
• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech

Building infrastructure for detecting and complaining about tracking and privacy violations in mobile apps on Android and iOS.

• Prototype Fund

• Digital security and privacy
• Data rights

Les entreprises doivent vous donner accès à vos données et les corriger, voire les supprimer si nécessaire. En tant qu'association à but non lucratif, nous vous aidons à exercer ces droits - gratuitement et sans inscription, bien sûr.

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data rights

Nutze Dein Recht auf Datenschutz.

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data rights

Poduzeća ti moraju omogućiti pristup tvojim podacima i ispraviti ih ili čak izbrisati ako je potrebno. Kao neprofitna udruga, pomažemo ti koristiti ta prava – besplatno i bez registracije.

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data rights

Cape is the only mobile carrier built with privacy and security at its core.

• commercial

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Hardware

Nigeria's Foremost Data Protection Attorneys

• Digital security and privacy
• Legal tech

With a focus on migration, technology, and human rights, we actively interrogate tech experiments on people crossing borders.

• surveillance
• immigration

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Digital security and privacy
• Archives

A Irídia defensem els drets civils i polítics. Denunciem la violència institucional i promovem canvis en les polítiques públiques. Actua!

• human rights
• surveillance

• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Campaign organizations

eQualitie is a Canadian digital security organisation focused on the development and distribution of free, open-source software, services and security training to civil society, NGO's, investigative journalists and independent media to protect and promote human rights and press freedom online

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Enhancing the privacy and security of national digital identity systems

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights
• Identity

قامت أكساس ناو بإعداد دليل الأمن الرقمي بهدف تقديم الدعم للأشخاص في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا الذين يسعون لحماية أنفسهم من التهديدات الرقمية والبقاء آمنين على الإنترنت. (Access Now has created this Digital Security Guide to support people in the MENA region who are looking to protect themselves from digital threats and stay safe online.)

• guides

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Law enforcement agencies are increasingly using surveillance tools, predictive technologies, and automated decision-making systems that impose a disproportionate burden on communities historically impacted by systemic bias.

• racial equity

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital security and privacy
• Justice tech

Surveillance Watch is an interactive map that documents the hidden connections within the opaque surveillance industry.

• surveillance

• Data visualization
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

En los últimos quince años, los peruanos hemos renunciado a muchos aspectos de nuestra privacidad en nombre de la seguridad. ¿Ha valido la pena?

• reports

• Digital security and privacy

¿Cómo protegen las empresas de telecomunicaciones nuestra información cuando el Estado toca la puerta?

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Tanto los organismos del sistema electoral como las organizaciones políticas utilizan nuestros datos al momento de realizar un proceso electoral.

• Voting and elections
• Digital security and privacy
• Organize campaigns

Este proyecto nace con la intención de ser una campaña de sensibilización para proteger el derecho a la protesta y denunciar la persecución policial en espacios digitales.

• policing

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Digital security and privacy
• Government transparency

Blocks lots of AI scrapers at once

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital security and privacy

TrustCon is the global conference dedicated to trust and safety professionals who are responsible for the challenging work of keeping our platforms and communities safe.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Digital security and privacy

The conference brings together trust and safety researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, civil society, and government.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Digital security and privacy

Delete Nothing aims to document technology-related gender-based violence in Sri Lanka, particularly but not limited to the experiences of girls, women, and queer and trans people in Sri Lanka.

• anti-harassment
• anti-trafficking
• Online Gender-Based Violence (OGBV)

• Digital security and privacy
• Tech for public challenges
• Digital rights

The Digital Wellbeing Initiative in Sri Lanka is a project that collaborates with youth, technology professionals, artists, and policymakers to equip the next generation with the skills and knowledge needed to navigate the digital landscape with skill and intellect and find a balance between the promise of technology and their personal well-being.

• mental health
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital literacy
• Media literacy

An open source starter app that comes with user accounts that include: data access, do not sell, data deletion, undo sign up, and other features.

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

[A] multi-stakeholder co-design project – including a citizen panel – is an integral part of the process in which the service is designed and realized

• mobility
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Academia

The recent wave of protests calling for peace in Palestine have been met with unwarranted and aggressive suppression from law enforcement, universities, and other bad actors. It’s clear that the changing role of surveillance on college campuses exacerbates the dangers faced by all of the…

• guides
• students

• Digital security and privacy
• Direct action

Sets out best practices and actions online platforms can take to implement more robust support for Human Rights Defenders under threat

• human rights
• reports
• United States (federal government)

• Digital security and privacy
• Foundational layers