[Rd6n6]

How is privacy tools operated? What is the organization behind it? Is it a business or a group or volunteers?

I’ve been visiting for years, it’s a good site

Edit: looks like it’s becoming a business?

> The PrivacyTools team is proud to introduce a suite of privacy-centric online services to connect you with other privacy-minded individuals and stay safe and secure online. No advertisers, no Google Analytics, no tracking, no third-party requests of any kind

[freddyym]

Currently it is a not-for-profit organization, though we plan on creating a new legal organization designed around the community to ensure our long-term sustainability.

[GekkePrutser]

It should really remain not for profit if you want to be taken seriously at what you do. At least make it a foundation if it needs a legal entity :) And be really careful who you take money from and under which conditions.

See what happened to freenode recently, how well that worked out for them :)

[dngray]

> It should really remain not for profit if you want to be taken seriously at what you do. At least make it a foundation if it needs a legal entity :) And be really careful who you take money from and under which conditions.

That is the intention, and it says that in the blog article :).

> Eventually, we plan on creating a new legal organization designed around the community to ensure our long-term sustainability. This will take some careful planning and time to get right, but we’re confident we can prevent this from ever happening again, and keep us independent of any one team member.

Just to clarify, we plan to become a 501(c)(3) organization.

This was another thing Burung Hantu wasn't interested in.

[GekkePrutser]

Thanks for the explanation, I missed that in the article. I have no idea what 501(c)(3) means however :D But great that you are remaining non profit.

[dngray]

One of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)(3)_organization

[nugget]

Does that mean the new site will be for profit and owned by the mods?

[dngray]

No.

> Eventually, we plan on creating a new legal organization designed around the community to ensure our long-term sustainability. This will take some careful planning and time to get right, but we’re confident we can prevent this from ever happening again, and keep us independent of any one team member.

Just to clarify, we plan to become a 501(c)(3) organization.

The site will remain run in the same way, it's just we won't have someone at the very top who is never around, never contributes and owns the domain.

Funding is transparently listed:

https://opencollective.com/privacytools

https://blog.privacytools.io/privacytools-io-joins-the-open-...