The Open Privacy Research Society (Open Privacy for short) is a non-profit Canadian group based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
We are open to nominations for new people to join the Open Privacy Research Society’s Board of Directors! In particular, we are looking for individuals who have experience in fundraising and organizational capacity building. But if you think you have a skill you can bring to the Open Privacy board then we really want to hear from you.
Three years ago, on February 11th 2018, we officially incorporated the Open Privacy Research Society. At that point in time I don’t think any of us had any idea how the following years would go. 2020 was difficult and challenging. The work outlined here is a fraction of what we had hoped to achieve. 2020 impacted our projects, our priorities, and our lives. That said, I think it represents some of…
Today we are releasing the first cut of Lockbox, an application for creating simple encrypted web forms!
Two years ago, on February 11th 2018, we officially incorporated the Open Privacy Research Society. Since then we’ve grown so much as an organization. We now have 8 board members, and 4 staff members, multiple open source projects, an office and, most importantly, an active and amazing base of supporters who enable us to do our important work - researching and developing privacy enhancing…
Late last year we set out to find a new Staff Designer to work with us to set the direction of the look and feel of our software projects and websites. We received many fantastic applications, and we are very excited to announce that we have now hired a Staff Designer!
Today we are proud to announce and release Cwtch Alpha 0.3.1! Featuring a first cut of profile management.
We are delighted to announce that the Zcash Foundation donated 1044.41369 ZEC (or $40,000 USD at time of donation) to the Open Privacy Research Society. We would like to send a big Thank You to the Zcash Foundation for their support! While the donation was unrestricted, we would also like to take this opportunity to announce a number of new initiatives (some involving zcash!) that this funding…
Vancouver, BC - The Open Privacy Research Society has received an update from Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) after last weeks Press Release publicly disclosing that we had discovered that the sensitive medical information of patients being admitted to certain hospitals across the Greater Vancouver Area is being broadcast, unencrypted, by hospital paging systems, and that these broadcasts are…
Open Privacy was founded on the belief that the world can be better. We started as a group of researchers and technologists who were frustrated by the ever growing stranglehold of surveillance capitalism and the harm it was causing marginalized and at-risk communities. We wanted to build an organization that served those that mainstream groups ignore: sex workers, queer people, those impacted by…
Today we are proud to announce and release Cwtch Alpha 0.3.0 and kick off the 0.3 alpha release cycle! This release line is the first where the Android experience is now expected to work reliably alongside the desktop versions (Windows and Linux). This is the culmination of a lot of work over the past 5 months.