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The problem is much bigger than Facebook. It's the internet's economic model. It's the internet's surveillance model.
Communicating, sharing, and accessing information shouldn't have to make you a commodity or target.
You shouldn't be exploited for using the internet.
Privacy isn't about having something to hide.
Privacy is about protecting who we are as human beings: our fears, our relationships, and our vulnerabilities from manipulation and exploitation.
We all deserve privacy.
Just in case you need another reason to avoid Zoom.
"Being arrested for using encryption is like being arrested for locking your front door" -
Privacy isn't about hiding bad things. It's about protecting what makes us humans: our day-to-day behavior, our personality, our fears, our relationships, and our vulnerabilities. Everyone deserves privacy online.
People in Russia are turning to Tor by the thousands to circumvent internet censorship. 🇷🇺 🧅
Our guide for how to bypass censorship in Russia has been viewed more than 130,000 times. ⤵️
Tomorrow, #NetNeutrality could be repealed in the US. Today is a good time to download Tor Browser: torproject.org/download
Privacy isn't about hiding bad things. It's about protecting what makes us humans: our day-to-day behavior, our personality, our fears, our relationships, and our vulnerabilities. Everyone deserves privacy online.
No, the WhatsApp hack does not show that end-to-end encryption is largely pointless.
A house getting broken into doesn't show it's pointless to lock doors.
If you want an alternative to Zoom: try Jitsi Meet. It's encrypted, open source, and you don't need an account. meet.jit.si
Now is a great time for @TwitterSafety to allow Tor Browser users to sign in to Twitter without forcing 2FA. Ability to access sources of information is crucial right now. #KeepItOn 🇺🇦
URGENT: Starting Dec. 1st, Russian ISPs have started blocking access to Tor. We've also learned that Roskomnadzor, the Russian gov't responsible for censorship, intends to block torproject.org.
We need your help NOW to fight censorship!
If you use a privacy system like Tor that doesn't rely on a centralized corporation, keep doing that.
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If you're an ExpressVPN customer, you shouldn't be. twitter.com/josephmenn/sta…
Google is giving data to police based on search keywords. It's time to switch to Tor Browser + .
Google forced employees to delete a confidential memo about the plans for a censored search engine in China.
The memo disclosed that users would have to log in & have their location tracked - plus a partner co would have "unilateral access" to user data.
Online surveillance of Black Lives Matter activities by the U.S. government is documented fact. Be safe online. Use Tor. #blacklivesmatter
Privacy isn't about hiding bad things. It's about protecting what defines us as human beings: our day-to-day behavior, our personality, our fears, our relationships, and our vulnerabilities.
Privacy should be the default online. #TakeBacktheInternet
"No amount of even the most perfect surveillance, no amount of repression or rent-seeking can or will change who we are... there is not a day that passes without individuals searching for the means to restore & improve the systems that govern our lives."
No one should be able to control what you do and don't have access to on the web. The internet should be open and accessible to all. #NetNeutrality
Türkiye’deki arkadaşlar!
Ülkenizde Tor engelliyse ve internetiniz yavaşlatılıyor, sansüre uğruyorsa sansürsüz internete erişmek için Tercihler’den yeni bir köprü seçin. torproject.org/tr/download/
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Our website and Tor Browser are now both available in #Catalan.
Sabem que és més fàcil utilitzar alguna cosa en el vostre propi idioma. Si mai no heu provat el navegador Tor, avui és el dia.
Prova-ho ara: torproject.org/ca
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Nope.
This is terrifying.
Having a cookie on their computers set by a 1x1 tracking pixel was used to wrongly accuse 30,000 Turks of treason.
Tens of thousands were sent to jail. Many lost homes and jobs. Some committed suicide.
It's simple:
Privacy is a human right.
Digital rights are human rights.
Encryption is your right.
Dear Twitter, we're 5,000 followers away from 400K! Can you help us get there?
Help by spreading the word that:
🟣 Privacy is a human right.
🟣 Tracking & surveillance are widespread on the internet.
🟣 Tor is a nonprofit that can help you take back your privacy online.
A private tab or incognito window will protect your privacy!
!⃝ 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀
Cheers to "destroying the Internet's economic model" 🙌
Tails, a live operating system relying on Tor that helps you to use the internet anonymously and circumvent censorship almost anywhere you go and on any computer, turns 10 today.
Happy birthday, 🎂
lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor- #FOSS #opensource
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We've got big news.
After months of work, Tor Browser is now stable on Android.
Tor Browser 8.5 brings the highest degree of privacy and censorship-circumvention available to Android users. blog.torproject.org/new-release-to
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We've got to clear something up. It's Tor, not TOR.
✅ The Tor Project
🚫 The TOR Project
✅ THE TOR PROJECT (for all caps headings or when you’re very excited)
Tell your friends.
Congratulations to ! We're happy to have you as Tor Browser's default search engine. 🦆 + 🧅
Walmart filed a patent to use biometric shopping handles to track customers' heart rates, temperatures, and stress levels.
Nothing to worry about here.
cbinsights.com/research/walma
Google Play store is blocked in Iran, but you still can download Tor by using our official Telegram bots/channels:
🤖 @GetTor_Bot to download Tor Browser
🤖 @GetBridgesBot to get obfs4 bridges
🗞️ to get the latest news
👩💻 @TorProjectSupportBot for help. Stay safe!
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We've got BIG NEWS. We gave Tor Browser a UX overhaul.
Tor Browser 8.0 has a new user onboarding experience, an updated landing page, additional language support, and new behaviors for bridge fetching, displaying a circuit, and visiting .onion sites.
blog.torproject.org/new-release-to
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If you use Firefox, Brave, or Chrome, we developed an easy way you can help people bypass censorship just by adding a browser extension! Our Snowflake extension turns your browser into a proxy that connects users to the Tor network in places were Tor is otherwise censored. ❄️
Next Friday, Edward will host Tor’s third PrivChat, a fundraising livestream event and conversation with human rights defenders + real-life Tor users , , & . You're invited, so set your reminder: torproject.org/privchat/
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This is a major human rights breach - thousands in Turkey were arrested for downloading an encrypted messaging app theguardian.com/world/2017/sep
Face masks are causing facial recognition algorithms to fail up to 50% of the time. Use a mask to break surveillance in person and to help stop the spread of COVID-19, use Tor to break surveillance online. #UseAMaskUseTor
Privacy is a human right. Stand up for that right with a donation to Tor. donate.torproject.org
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I'm literally using @torproject to post this tweet.
We heard Daily Stormer moved to a Tor onion service. We're here to defend the human rights these racists oppose. blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-proje
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I think this one line sums up the report nicely:
"WHO deserves the right to privacy = everybody, everywhere."
We're very happy to see that Twitter is now offering an .onion address. 🐦🧅
zg5vztmjuricljdp2c5kshju4avyoid.onion
For many years Tor users have been looking for such a feature. Thank you Twitter!
Now is a vital time to help people stay connected and .onion services help to do this.
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This is possibly the most important and long-awaited tweet that I've ever composed.
On behalf of @Twitter, I am delighted to announce their new @TorProject onion service, at:
zg5vztmjuricljdp2c5kshju4avyoid.onion
AT&T buildings in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, LA, NYC, San Francisco, Seattle, and D.C. have been identified as central to an NSA spying initiative monitoring billions of emails, phone calls, and online chats passing across the US.
theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att
61% of Android apps tested by automatically transfer data to Facebook the moment a user opens the app even if they don't have a FB account or aren't logged in
privacyinternational.org/campaigns/inve
.onion: privacyintyqcroe.onion/campaigns/inve
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Talk to your doctor about using Tor. #TorStories
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Freedom online is a human right
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Freedom online is a human right
#RunTorBridges
This Friday, Edward will host Tor’s third PrivChat, a fundraising livestream event and conversation with human rights defenders + real-life Tor users , , & . Open to all. Set your reminder here: youtube.com/watch?v=S2N3Go
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Take a stand against 's recent speech-recognition patent that claims to detect “emotional state, gender, age, or accent” to recommend music. Music services shouldn't be using covert surveillance in their products.
Tor Browser isn't just a tool for protecting activists and journalists online. You can teach your family to protect themselves with it, too.
Why should Google, your ISP, and website trackers know what your kids are researching and what sites they're visiting? They shouldn't.
Здравствуйте! Похоже, ваш Интернет-провайдер блокирует Tor. Tor Browser включает инструменты обхода блокировок. О том, как использовать мосты Tor, можно прочесть здесь (на русском языке):
Today, Russia tightened its grip on the free internet by officially blocking torproject.org, making it much more difficult for human rights defenders, journalists, & activists to protect themselves online.
Ready to stop Facebook from following you around the web? We can help. Tor Browser "masks your activity and encrypts your usage data so that no one can track it." Plus it's free and open source.
Facebook has always known what it was doing: exploiting you.
motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/
Ola Bini is a long-time privacy activist and should be released immediately. We are very concerned about the implications of his arrest and his safety. #FreeOlaBini #Ecuador blog.torproject.org/ecuador-free-o
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Increasing censorship in and against Russians has highlighted the importance of encryption and privacy preserving tools like Tor.
As a contribution to our campaign to #TakeBacktheInternet, has given us three signed cards to include inside copies of #PermanentRecord for our supporters.
Make a donation of $75 or more through 12/28, and you'll be entered to win one of three. blog.torproject.org/thank-you-edwa
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We're excited to welcome to the Tor Project Membership Program as our newest Green Onion! Thank you for supporting Tor and the work to make privacy accessible for everyone. 🧅🔒💚
A: How do you like your burger?
B: With a side of dystopia.
Yuck.
thetakeout.com/restaurants-ar
Nobody should be exploited for using the internet, but right now, trackers are harvesting our every move online. We know a safer internet is possible.
If you use Firefox or Chrome, we developed an easy way you can help people bypass censorship.
Our Snowflake extension turns your browser into a proxy that connects Tor users in censored regions to the Tor network. snowflake.torproject.org
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Reminder: Privacy is a basic human right.
We believe everyone should have private access to an open web where they can express themselves, share information, and learn without being tracked, surveilled, or censored. un.org/en/universal-d
#humanrights #privacy #surveillance
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. is right. That's why we're doing our best to make sure there is a "safe enough" option out there.
By donating to the #TorBugSmash Fund that ends Saturday, you can help us smash all the bugs and keep millions of people safer online. donate.torproject.org
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I wouldn't expect any system to be totally secure, much less remain secure forever in the face of adversary advances, but that's not the claim. Security is process of choosing between "less safe" and "more safe;" and continuing to fork toward safety until you reach "safe enough."
For activists, anonymity online can be of life or death importance. Users should not be required to provide a phone number simply because they log in over Tor. We would love to talk to to find a solution so that activists can use social media in their work safely.
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In a moment of seriousness, let's talk about @Twitter, @torproject and phone numbers. For a couple years now, every Twitter user that uses Tor to conceal their identity has been suspended if they don't have a phone number. [1/8]
New user guide: Circumventing Censorship in Iran with Tor!
If you are having issues connecting to the Tor network from Iran, please try these solutions 👇
Privacy is your right. You shouldn't be exploited for using the internet.
#privacyday #dataprivacyday
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Türkiye’de yaşayan dostlarımız: Sansüre ve engellemelere karşı Tor sizin için burada. Tor Browser ile internetteki sansürü aşın ve özgürce gezinin. “Tor sansürlü” seçeneğini seçin, yapılandırın ve bir köprü seçin.
İndir: tor.ybti.net/tr/ #HerşeyGüzelOlacak
Para nuestros panas en Venezuela, pueden seguir usando Tor seleccionando meek-azure, para esquivar la censura y mantenerse conectados a Internet. blog.torproject.org/rompiendo-barr
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