Open Privacy spearheads a number initiatives aligned with our mission and our tenets

Decentralize Control

Technology should prioritize anti-surveillance and consent. No one party should be able to exert power over the whole system.

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.

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.

Our Projects

[Cwtch](/content/work/cwtch/ "Cwtch"/index.html)

Metadata resistant group communication for building privacy preserving applications

[Lockbox](/content/work/lockbox/ "Lockbox"/index.html)

Encrypted Web Forms to enable safe and secure mutual aid.

[Disclosure of Vancouver Patient Medical Data Pager Breach](/content/work/pager-breach/ "Disclosure of Vancouver Patient Medical Data Pager Breach"/index.html)

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

[Swiss E-voting Research & Disclosure](/content/work/swisspost-scytl-evoting/ "Swiss E-voting Research & Disclosure"/index.html)

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

[OP:Sec](/content/work/opsec/ "OP:Sec"/index.html)

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

[Shatter Secrets](/content/work/shatter-secrets/ "Shatter Secrets"/index.html)

Threshold cryptography to prevent compelled disclosure during border crossings.

[Infrastructure](/content/work/infrastructure/ "Infrastructure"/index.html)

Open sourcing our non-profit infrastructure.

[Fuzzytags](/content/work/fuzzytags/ "Fuzzytags"/index.html)

a probabilistic cryptographic structure for metadata resistant tagging.

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.