Open Privacy Research Society

2022 Donation Goal

$56,000

~$56,000 / $300,000
(projected based on individual and monthly pledges)

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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Donations of $5 or more receive stickers as a thank-you gift, and $25 or more gets you one of our new sticker sheets! To celebrate our 4th anniversary, we'll even count cumulative pledges since November 2021 to our Patreon.

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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 a donation by other methods.

Our Work

Cwtch

Metadata resistant group communication for building privacy preserving applications

Lockbox

Encrypted Web Forms to enable safe and secure mutual aid.

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

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

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.

Discreet Log: Our Development Blog

Discreet Log #34: Scaling Cwtch Connections

15 Nov 2022

Welcome to Discreet Log 34! A regular update providing a look into the research, projects and tools that we work on at Open Privacy. This edition we want to tell you about some upcoming changes to connection management for Cwtch 1.10, the ongoing Cwtch Bug Bash list, updated build containers, and a new article about P2P communications featuring Cwtch!

Discreet Log #33: Cwtch 1.9 Released! Privacy is Consent T-shirts have been shipped!

16 Sep 2022

Welcome to Discreet Log 33! A regular update providing a look into the research, projects and tools that we work on at Open Privacy. This edition we want to tell you about all the exciting new features in Cwtch 1.9, Privacy is Consent t-shirts, and some recent reporting of vulnerabilities in the email client Thunderbird.

Contact Us

Open Privacy Research Society
PO Box 5053 Vancouver Main Vancouver, BC
Canada
V6B 4A9

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In Brief

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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