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2019 Goal

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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.

Projects

Cwtch

Metadata resistant group communication for building privacy preserving applications

Disclosure of Vancouver Patient Medical Data Pager Breach

Extended security and privacy disclosure of an alarming patient medical data breach.

Swiss E-voting Research & Disclosure

Reseach into Cryptographic Vulnerabilities impacting the Swiss Post / Scytl e-voting System.

OP:Sec

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

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

Press Release: Vancouver Coastal Health Stops Broadcasting Patient Diagnosis

26 Sep 2019

Vancouver, BC - The Open Privacy Research Society has received an update from Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) after last weeks Press Release publicly disclosing that we had discovered that the sensitive medical information of patients being admitted to certain hospitals across the Greater Vancouver Area is being broadcast, unencrypted, by hospital paging systems, and that these broadcasts are trivially interceptable by anyone in the Greater Vancouver Area.

Releasing Our 2018 Financial Statements & End of Year Report

24 Sep 2019

Open Privacy was founded on the belief that the world can be better. We 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.

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