Organizations
New Public — Eli Pariser and a team of innovators rethinking the digital commons
Center for Humane Technology — started by Tristan Harris and other early advocates
BEACON — The Better Ethics and Consumer Outcomes Network
One Project — envisioning unbiased governance for all
Own Your Own Data Foundation — education for companies and consumers
Open GDPR — open software standards for privacy
Internet Identity Workshop — a twice-yearly gathering
FocaFet — developing standards for interoperability
Open Loop — working on agile governance and regulation
Stanford Internet Observatory — social media studies
Software & Systems for Humans
A list of personal-data projects maintained by the Berkman Center at Harvard.
@Sign - digital identity
Top Privacy Open-Source Projects
A list of Solid apps by Inrupt.
Decentralized Web - a manifesto and a new vision
Junto - a nonprofit social network
Bits About Me — personal data store and more
Civic — a wallet with identity built in.
Csuli — own your own health-care data.
Cozy — personal data store
Customer Commons — the new life of vendor-relationship management, started by Doc and Joyce Searls.
Datafund — an open-source personal data store.
Diaspora — focusing on social connections.
Digi.me — personal data store.
Ethi — control what data big tech knows about you.
Evernym — the identity platform.
Freenet — a decentralized social network
Genius — the AI-driven personal assistant
Global Citizen Project is trying to create an umbrella for all things personal-data.
HOPR — data privacy on blockchain
Hub of All Things is a system that lets you store your personal data.
ID Pocket — an app that lets you digitize your existing documents, protect, and use them.
iGrant.io — permission management (Europe)
MyColorado — a universal government app for interacting with government services - first in the nation.
Projectliberty.io — very exciting and well funded project to create identity and ownership and self-sovereignty.
Verim — Identity
Inrupt, headed by Tim Berners Lee, aims to commercialize Solid.
Jumbo, the privacy app.
LifeScope.io is a for-profit company that wants to tie into all your services’ APIs and suck your data into your own personal data locker.
MedsByMe - you own your prescriptions and choose the pharmacy each time you fill one.
Mercury - a new, intent-driven OS.
MetaMe — own and monetize your own data.
Mindvault — a collection of important concepts for critical thinking and dissemination of good ideas.
Mine — find your personal data and manage it.
The MyData Global Organization and declaration.
MyDex — personal data store.
Neeva — search you pay for.
Oasis Blockchain — blockchain for personal data
OnchainID — permissioned identity for KYC and regulated uses
Open Personal Data Store project at MIT.
Osano — data privacy.
PanQuake — P2P social network, no ads.
Personium — an open-source project.
Podium Network — a social network with integrity
PolyPoly — a personal data store project starting in Europe.
PTTP - a personal medical chart you own.
Right.ly — Monitor your use of data by third parties
Schluss — own and control your data.
The Solid Project, by Tim Berners Lee, inventor of the Worldwide Web, is all about self-sovereign ownership of identity and data.
Sovrin.org — the identity blockchain.
SpruceID — identity and storage of personal data.
Urbit — a personal OS that runs on any system today.
Yourself.online — find your personal data and leverage it now.
Zenotta — a blockchain with a legal framework for ownership, based in Switzerland.
Zion — a social network you can create and configure for yourself and your friends
Hardware for Humans
Hu.Ma.Ne — a new phone by a pair of ex-Apple executives.
Pinwheel — the new phone for kids.