Organizations Leading the Fight for Privacy

There is a lot to do when it comes to protecting and promoting privacy. Here is a non-exhaustive list of organizations who promote privacy. Let us know if you know of someone who should be added to this list.

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Non profits:

• Access Now - a nonprofit that defends and extends the digital rights of people and communities at risk
• The Apache Software Foundation - a nonprofit that supports a number of open-source software projects
• Center for Democracy & Technology - a nonprofit organization that advocates for digital rights and freedom of expression
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation - a nonprofit digital rights group
• Electronic Privacy Information Center - a nonprofit research center set on protecting privacy, freedom of expression, and democratic values in the information age
• Fight for the Future - a nonprofit advocacy group in the area of digital rights
• Freedom of the Press Foundation - a nonprofit that protects, defends, and empowers public-interest journalism in the 21st century
• Free Software Foundation - a nonprofit supporting the free software movement, with the organization's preference for software being distributed under copyleft terms, such as with its own GNU General Public License
• Internet Society - a nonprofit advocacy organization that builds, promotes, and defends the internet
• Linux Foundation - a nonprofit organization established in 2000 to support Linux development and open-source software projects
• Monero - a decentralized digital currency that keeps your finances confidential and secure
• noyb - a nonprofit organization that supports privacy rights
• Open Source Initiative - the steward of the Open Source Definition, the most widely used standard for open-source software
• Privacy Guides - a nonprofit, volunteer-run project that hosts online communities and publishes news and recommendations surrounding privacy and security tools, services, and knowledge
• Privacy International - a nonprofit that defends and promotes the right to privacy across the world
• The Tor Project - a nonprofit organization that develops and provides free software and open networks for online privacy and freedom

Podcasts

• Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons - a podcast for everyday, non-technical people on how to improve their cybersecurity and online privacy - to protect your devices and your data!
• Opt Out by Seth for Privacy - a podcast with guests to learn why privacy matters to them, the tools and techniques they've found and leveraged, and where we encourage and inspire others towards personal privacy and data-sovereignty
• The Privacy Security & OSINT Podcast with Michael Bazzell (discontinued - we miss you, come back!), link to IntelTechniques, his website
• Surveillance Report -a podcast with weekly security and privacy news with the goal of keeping the world updated on the latest privacy & security news to empower individuals to remain safe with the newest information
• Watchman Privacy - a podcast discussing radical privacy and freedom tactics

Companies, other organizations, and educators

• Anonyome Labs - a company that builds tools to protect and control personal and private information online
• Brave - a fast, private and secure web browser that blocks ads, trackers and pop-ups
• DuckDuckGo - a privacy company for anyone who’s tired of being tracked online and wants an easy solution
• FDroid - installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform
• Future of Privacy Forum - a think tank and advocacy group focused on issues of data privacy
• The New Oil - an education resource on why privacy and security matter, and the various tools and techniques available to help reclaim and protect privacy & security
• Onion Share - an open-source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network
• Proton - a Swiss technology company offering privacy-focused online services like email, VPN, encrypted calendar, encrypted drive, password manager, encrypted notes, and email masking
• Privacy - a US-based credit card masking company
• Signal - an open-source, encrypted messaging service for instant messaging, voice calls, and video calls
• The Sync Thing Foundation - a free and open source peer-to-peer file synchronization application
• Techlore - educators on digital rights, privacy, security, digital control, and other important topics to push the world towards a safer internet
• Tuta - a German technology company offering privacy-focused online services like email, encrypted calendar, and encrypted contacts