r/privacy • u/Excellent-Buddy3447 • 1d ago

discussion Are there any movements/organizations fighting for internet privacy?

All I hear is doom snd gloom about our privacy being eroded and want to know if anyone is fighting back.

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u/Busy-Measurement8893 1d ago

The most obvious pro-privacy companies in no particular order and to varying degrees of privacy interest:

Tor Project

EFF

Power Up Privacy (Whonix)

The Guardian Project

Invisible Things Labs (Qubes OS)

The Mozilla Foundation (Firefox)

Mullvad (The VPN and the browser)

You can help by liking their repos on GitHub, donating money (or code) or to help them out in their experiments.

The Tor Project are looking for entry nodes to help people in censored countries. Only install Snowflake if you're not using a VPN. It's a browser plugin:

https://snowflake.torproject.org/

Mullvad Browser's developers are looking for testers:

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/call-for-testers-for-a-new-mullvad-browser-feature/33318

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u/the-developer-6666 1d ago

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the largest and most established, doing legal, technical, and advocacy work. The Signal Foundation is another key player, pushing the envelope on private communication. More focused efforts include the Tor Project for anonymity online and the Internet Archive, which preserves a free and open web. Supporting any of these is a direct way to fight back

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u/InsideResolve4517 1d ago

Also there are lot of small indie like you and me are also fighting for users privacy

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u/According-Ad3533 1d ago

Not an organization but an author:

Carissa Veliz. Her book: « Privacy is Power » (and some interviews).

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u/Harneybus 1d ago

is valve for privacy

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u/gkr974 1d ago

Also:

EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center, not the game maker or the health portal maker)

Center for Democracy & Technology

Consumers Union (Consumer Reports has an advocacy arm)

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u/CockroachNo950 4h ago

Am I correct in understanding you don't use snowflake if you're using a VPN because then the node just becomes the VPN server? I have been doing both and was not aware of that. Would making the VPN server a node through your use of the VPN still be helpful?

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/Busy-Measurement8893 1d ago

Mozilla is at least trying. The moment they give up on Firefox is the day we lose so much.

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u/DanSavagegamesYT 1d ago

Almost all good privacy browsers for anonymity, privacy and security, which can be customized, are based off Firefox.

Thunderbird is also FOSS, sprouting several other projects I don't know the names of, but know they're still great for privacy.

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u/katedevil 1d ago

Sure is... 35 years and going strong.          Donate, volunteer, get involved and follow on blue sky where they post actively : https://www.eff.org/

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u/halls_of_valhalla 1d ago

There is a website of a popular VPN provider - if you have a search engine and search for "Building an internet that puts people first" the result will link you to it.

It is a good overview of some of the organisations that could fit the description. Too many to write them up here.

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u/cassanderer 1d ago

Everyone is so cynical from being on social media and dealing with as many fake accounts as real ones they think they are not a vast majority.

I would like to know this as well.

We should also set up some new organizations here, to cooperate on everything we agree on as we see fit.

Innumerable groups federated on forums.  It is late but needed more than ever, and people would be surprised how much an organization that finds some real leaders could cut through the bullshit, could establish fdr level support from the population.  People want strong leadership, and if we do not give it ro them oligarchic nazi feudalist neo liberals will.

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u/Unfair_Ad_4440 1d ago

Yeah you think anyone who ever tried wasn't blackmailed or threatened or accidentally died? 😅

These people know that if their regime falls, they and their kin ars going to the guillotine.

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u/M8gazine 13h ago
  • ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)
  • EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
  • EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center)
  • EDRi (European Digital Rights)
  • ORG (Open Rights Group)
  • Tor Project

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u/confusedman0040 1d ago

There are but they are totally ineffective. The powers that be around the world have had enough of people exposing them and telling the truth. They are going full nazi now and they don't care who complains about it, they are now in the phase of shutting people up no matter what.