Technology has improved to help with Internet privacy concerns, especially for human rights activists, artists, authors, journalists, and writers.  We highly recommend using the following applications to protect your online privacy, especially Signal for your phone and Tor for your Internet browser program.

Signal is a free open source application and cross-platform encrypted messaging service developed by the Signal Foundation and Signal Messenger LLC for Android and iOS phones and desktop computers, that employs end-to-end encryption, allowing users to send end-to-end encrypted group, text, picture, and audio & video messages, and have encrypted phone conversations between Signal users.

Tor mission is to advance human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity and privacy technologies, supporting their unrestricted availability and use, and furthering their scientific and popular understanding. Browse privately, explore freely, defend yourself against tracking and surveillance, circumvent censorship. Tor is an encrypted anonymising network that makes it harder to intercept Internet communications, or see where communications are coming from or going to.

Tails is a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card and aims at preserving your online privacy and anonymity.

Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority or banks; managing transactions and the issuing of bitcoins is carried out collectively by the network.

WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organisation that publishes secret information, news leaks, and classified media provided by anonymous sources.

See also: WikiLeaks Research Community - user contributed research based on documents published by WikiLeaks.

The Courage Foundation is an international organisation that supports those who risk life or liberty to make significant contributions to the historical record.