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 interest victories previously thought to be impossible

• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Campaign organizations

Mozilla Foundation's annual naughty and nice list of consumer tech's privacy policies

• guides
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Consumer watchdogging

Reseaching and advocating for critical digital education and youth participation from Latin America and the Majority World

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

An international effort to empower individuals and business to respect privacy, safeguard data and enable trust.

• Digital security and privacy
• Holidays
• Data rights

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 questions for the Internet.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

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 computers to overwhelm a website’s servers and take it offline.

• Google

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

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 and personal data from unjust intrusion, interception and monitoring.

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

A privacy tool that lets you scan any website and see how you are being surveilled

• Digital security and privacy

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.

• The People
• Get funding
• Digital security and privacy

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 globally.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

CryptoHarlem is a Digital Surveillance Clinic that has been meeting on a monthly basis since 2013 in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. It is always open to the public and completely free of charge.

• workshops

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

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.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Secure and private email service with collaboration suite.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Civic and social impact companies

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 they are overseas or just down the street.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

EFF Guide to Messaging

• The Tech
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• Emerging tech

Helping make the internet safer and more accessible

• research
• human rights
• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Solidarity networks

Building resilient systems to keep civil society safe online

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Any NGO, human rights or media organisation that faces threats due to the work they are doing, can apply for this grant.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

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 and keep communication private and safe.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Foundational layers

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 that hampered the adoption of those tools in repressive contexts.

• trainings
• coaching

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

We’re here to protect democracy, defend people's dignity, and demand accountability from the powerful institutions who breach public trust.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

At the Data DiscoTech young people learned about what data is, unique ways to create data visualizations, and how to collect and analyze data.

• youth
• workshops

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital literacy

Across six sessions on March 7, 2019, we’ll look at how public interest tech is already changing the way power is distributed and decisions are made across public policy, philanthropic organizations, and Silicon Valley board rooms.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

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 accessible to everyone.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Connectivity

a project to improve the transparency behind Facebook’s algorithms

• Facebook

• The Tech
• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

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 already at war.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Digital security and privacy

Secure messaging, anywhere

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

SAFETAG adapts traditional penetration testing and risk assessment methodologies to be relevant to smaller non-profit organizations.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

We are Digital Defense Fund, and we do digital security for the abortion access movement.

• guides
• trainings
• women's health

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

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.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

We support Human Rights Defenders facing digital threats and work to strengthen local rapid response networks.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

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.

• city
• manifestos
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Participatory democracy

Totem is an online learning platform on using digital security tools and tactics effectively for journalists, activists, and trainers.

• trainings

• Media
• Digital security and privacy
• Civic literacy

We are a technology nonprofit developing innovative anti-censorship tools and sending life-changing information anywhere the Internet doesn’t reach.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Foundational layers

TIPS, TOOLS AND HOW-TOS FOR SAFER ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

In partnerships with local and international organisations, each GTI has further developed specific facilitation methodologies and training contents addressing the risks, attacks and contexts faced by activist women in the region.

• indigenous
• LGBTQI
• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Connected technologies and always-on data flows are helping make today’s cities and communities more livable, productive, and sustainable. At the same time, these technologies raise concerns about individual privacy, freedom of choice, and institutional discrimination.

• Digital security and privacy
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Working groups

We provide software that ensures free speech online

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Circumvention tech

An un-conference, one of the leading gatherings in the space, that brought together close to 1,000 attendees from 132 countries in 2018.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• In-person meetings

Intra is an Android app that protects against DNS manipulation, making it easy to access blocked websites and apps and get safer access to the internet.

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower submission system that media organizations can use to securely accept documents from and communicate with anonymous sources.

• Media
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Human rights defenders need evidence, law and research to advocate justice and accountability. We develop tools and strategies that make this information accessible.

• human rights

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

The Community Lab provides services that empower the community to become stronger and vibrant by focusing on cultivating deeper trust relationships, improving knowledge share and collaboration, and supporting and diversifying the next generation of leaders.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital literacy

An online forum for community discussion

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

Tella is a secure documentation app for Android, making it easier and safer to produce verifiable evidence and collect data in challenging environments

• apps

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

Protecting democratic elections through secure, verifiable voting

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Adjacent Fields

How can technology make people in the world safer?

• Google

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Did Facebook ads win the presidency for Donald Trump? Did they cause Brexit? Are they changing the way democracy works? Install Who Targets Me to find out who’s using Facebook ads to win your vote – and how they’re doing it.

• extensions

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Advertising