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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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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

Cwtch Alpha 0.1.2

04 Mar 2019

We announced the Cwtch Alpha 2 weeks ago. Since then we’ve seen many people trying Cwtch out in different ways, from building it themselves to running the supplied binaries. From this we’ve received lots of feedback in our issue tracking system. We also started using Cwtch (dog fooding) ourselves for some dev team communication.

Today we are releasing a new Cwtch alpha update, 0.1.2 that contains the following work and more:

Board Member Spotlight: Norman Shamas

19 Feb 2019

Over the next few weeks we will be telling many of the stories of the first year of Open Privacy through releases, articles, blog posts, board member spotlights and interviews. We will also be laying out ambitious goals for the next year. Today we hear from Norman Shamas about why they are involved in Open Privacy.

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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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