[ssss11]

The top level replies here are interesting, I think, for the HN crowd.

There’s some great examples of social good - helping homelessness, poor countries, the starving, the environment etc.

I don’t see anything though related to digital human rights and fixing the surveillence marketing & surveilance state activites that have overcome the web. As a tech crowd i find that very intriguing.

If anyone has examples of what they’re doing in this space I’d like to hear it?

I’m thinking of things like Solid, Matrix, Sovrin, and so on... this area seems to be growing rapidly and it interests me alot

[gramakri]

About digital rights and data ownership, I wrote about my company here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24170790

[dhaavi]

One of these already commented here: Mullvad - their comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24169684

I myself started out my (now our) privacy business a little different: When Snowden revealed the surveillance machinery around the world in 2013, I got thinking about how we as a society as a whole could ever withstand such a exploitive surveillance. You'll never win against a Nation/State actor 1-on-1 head on, but evading the dragnet of nations and of surveillance capitalism is possible. BUT, this requires a minimum of technical knowledge, which many do not have.

That is the barrier we want to remove. That is our social purpose.

This has led to an amazing journey, eventually expanding to three Co-Founders and our first couple employees. The founders hold 100% of the company on won't give any control away. We still live off of public and private (social impact) funding.

We try to give away as much as we can for free, and selling premium features. Our Application Firewall and Privacy Filter, the Portmaster, is completely free and open source.

The paid add-on is a brand new privacy network, which is somewhat similar to VPN and Tor. It eventually fully removes the need to trust us as a provider.

Check it all out at: https://safing.io/