
Bulk surveillance violates our fundamental rights.
Even if you have nothing to hide, using encryption helps protect the privacy of people you communicate with, and makes life difficult for bulk surveillance systems. If you do have something important to hide, you’re in good company; these are the same tools that whistleblowers use to protect their identities while shining light on human rights abuses, corruption and other crimes. In addition to using encryption, standing up to surveillance requires fighting politically for a reduction in the amount of data collected on us, but the essential first step is to protect yourself and make surveillance of your communication as difficult as possible.

Activists, journalists, lawyers, and many others rely on GnuPG to protect their communication. And, nearly all free software-based operating systems (…)
10 June 2017

Europe’s dire dependency on Microsoft
We, nine experienced journalists from eight European countries, are "Investigate Europe". We will research as a multinational team. We will share, merge (…)
24 May 2017

Statement concerning the arrest of Dmitry Bogatov
The Debian Project is concerned to hear that one of our members, Dmitry Bogatov, has been arrested by Russian authorities. Dmitry is a mathematics (…)
25 April 2017

Mastodon, a distributed version of Twitter, is almost identical to the platform it’s based on. Users can set up a profile, post short updates that may or (…)
7 April 2017

March 25-26 / MIT / Cambridge, Massachusetts. LibrePlanet is an annual conference hosted by the Free Software Foundation for people who care about their (…)
21 March 2017

Three challenges for the web, according to its inventor
Today is the world wide web’s 28th birthday. Here’s a message from our founder and web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee on how the web has evolved, and what (…)
12 March 2017

Xnet launches video campaign “Stop #CensorshipMachine” to defend our rights and freedom of expression. Feedom to Meme and gif, to parody, to educate, to (…)
7 March 2017

Gabriella Coleman - Anonymous and the Politics of Leaking
Outlaw tactics. Vigilante justice. Website defacement. Data dumps. Gabriella “Biella” Coleman visited Vancouver to deliver the fall 2016 Wall Exchange (…)
1 November 2016

Alert - Riseup financial update
Riseup provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change. We are a project to create democratic alternatives (…)
7 September 2016

ProtonMail was founded in 2013 by scientists who met at CERN and were drawn together by a shared vision of a more secure and private Internet. Since then, (…)
15 July 2016

Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit
Proudly powered by Python, MAT was originally written during the “Google Summer of Code 2011”, under the umbrella of the Tor project.What is metadata? (…)
10 July 2016

Qwant the search engine that respects your privacy
Firefox optimized for Qwant is now available! Qwant, the European Web search engine announced the immediate availability of Mozilla Firefox optimized for (…)
7 July 2016