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We teach and develop the technology you need for a safer digital life.

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We believe strong privacy and security should be available to everyone. Your donation helps to build tools and educational resources for a safer digital life.

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Donations are often tax-deductible in the USA. PrivacySafe Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity based in Connecticut, USA. Federal EIN: 41-5237617.

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Sean "Prof Diggity" O'Brien teaching cybersecurity

Cybersecurity Education

“Take Back Your Bytes” is PrivacySafe Foundation's cybersecurity education campaign for K-12 schools, higher education, and online learning communities.

The campaign provides educational materials, lesson plans, demonstrations, and tools that help learners understand privacy, secure communication, digital identity, cryptography, and responsible technology use.

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A terminal file tree for a certificate signing project, with a certs directory containing a signed PDF, signature, JSON metadata, public key, QR code, and onion address, alongside Python and shell scripts for signing, IPFS upload, verification, and onion service setup.
Public-interest code anyone can read

Standards & Protocols

PrivacySafe Foundation supports public standards and protocol documentation, including the 3NWeb Protocols hosted at IEEE SA Open. These specifications support self-sovereign identity, zero-knowledge filesystems, privacy by design, and interoperable infrastructure.

Our libraries and reference implementations are Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS), so anyone can read them, run them, teach from them, and share their modifications.

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What We Do

Our focus is upstream: education, documentation, public-interest tooling, security research, and global collaboration.

K-12 Schools

Age-appropriate lessons and activities that introduce privacy, cybersecurity, digital safety, responsible technology use, and data protection.

Higher Education

Educational materials for colleges, universities, and professional programs focused on AI, cryptography, decentralization, and blockchain.

FLOSS Libraries

Reusable Free/Libre and Open Source Software that supports privacy-first development, secure software supply chain, and public learning.

Security

Technical analysis, testing, and documentation that improves trust, resilience, and practical understanding of secure and encrypted systems.

Interoperability

Public protocols and data formats so people can move between services, federate with others, and avoid being locked into a single vendor.

Community

Our projects benefit from support and improvement by developers, researchers, educators, and security experts around the world.

About Our Foundation

Our Mission: PrivacySafe Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity advancing access to cybersecurity education, decentralized technology, Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS), and public-interest research. We believe strong privacy and security should be available to everyone.

The PrivacySafe Ecosystem

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You can download PrivacySafe apps for desktop and smartphone, including encrypted chat, calls, and storage, at privacysafe.app. PrivacySafe Foundation supports the development of these PrivacySafe applications, along with the components they rely upon: 3NWeb protocols, filesystem, documentation, and reference implementations.

Ivy Cyber offers PrivacySafe products and services in the USA and has partnerships with 3NSoft in Canada and Kuip Limited in the European Union.

Donations to PrivacySafe Foundation support education, research, documentation, and public code. Purchases from Ivy Cyber support PrivacySafe products, services, hosting, and technical support. Together, we're building a better web.

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To learn more, volunteer, teach with our materials, or ask about a directed donation, write to us.

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PrivacySafe Foundation, Inc.
1204 Main St #769
Branford, CT 06405-3787, USA

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