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Everyone deserves access to privacy enhancing technologies. With your help we can research, design and deploy cutting edge technology to those who need it most.

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Open Privacy is an incorporated non-profit society in British Columbia, Canada. Donations are not tax deductible. You can Donate Once via Bitcoin, Monero, Zcash, and Paypal, or you can Donate Monthly via Patreon or Paypal. Please contact us to arrange donation by other methods.

Cwtch

Metadata resistant group communication for building privacy preserving applications

Infrastructure

Open sourcing our non-profit infrastructure

OP:Sec

Closing the loop, working with marginalized communities to identify and fix privacy gaps.

Shatter Secrets

Threshold cryptography to prevent compelled disclosure during border crossings

Decentralize Control

Technology should prioritize consent and anti-surveillance. No one party should be able to exert power over the whole system.

Most current systems are centralized, and control over all actions is in the hands of a single organization. We are building a new generation of decentralized and consensual systems, where you control your interactions with others, with no third party mediating or interfering.

Design for the Margins

It is vital to understand the risks faced by underrepresented, persecuted, or victimized communities. Only through that understanding can we build systems that empower, rather than oppress.

Many systems are designed and deployed by those with privilege and, intentionally or not, mostly for people like themselves. We are conducting research and outreach to understand the needs of marginalized communities, to adapt and create tools that are better suited to their needs and to keep them safe and empowered.

Privacy through Transparency

The only way to build a robust system is to open it up to the world. Processes and protocols should be well documented and free for anyone to inspect and comment on.

We produce open and freely accessible research. We build free and open source software. We are an open organization with open governance.

The Latest

Happy Valentine's Day: Announcing Cwtch Alpha, A Start to Building Consensual Applications

14 Feb 2019

Cwtch is a Welsh word roughly translating to “a hug that creates a safe place”. Cwtch is also our decentralized, privacy-preserving, asynchronous multi-party messaging protocol that can be used to build consensual applications.

What better day to launch the alpha of a project designed to bring people together safely and securely than on Valentine’s day?

One Year of Open Privacy

11 Feb 2019

Open Privacy started as a group of researchers and technologists who were frustrated by the ever growing stranglehold of surveillance capitalism and the harm it was causing marginalized and at-risk communities. We wanted to build an organization that served those that mainstream groups ignore: sex workers, queer people, those impacted by intimate parter or family abuse, and human rights activists (to name just a few).

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The Open Privacy Research Society is a non-profit society based in Vancouver, Canada. We research, build and deploy technology that serves marginalized communities.

We acknowledge that the land on which we work is the unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil- Waututh) People.

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