Data Privacy Directory

European Digital Rights Initiative is a coalition of groups working to defend civil rights in the information society, specifically regarding the internet, copyright, and privacy in the European Union.

Engages in educational initiatives aimed at increasing the public’s awareness of advances in technology, online privacy, and identity issues to foster innovation and promote consumer privacy.

CDT works to promote democratic values by shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on the rights of the individual providing leadership and advocacy to help shape public policy and industry best practices while providing a forum for stakeholder dialogue.

Policy neutral and the world’s largest and most comprehensive global information privacy community, the IAPP is a resource for professionals helping their organizations successfully manage privacy risks and data security.

A nonprofit organization focused exclusively on consumer privacy rights and empowering individuals, the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse provides clarity on complex privacy topics by publishing extensive educational materials and consumer guides while also offering various online services, including a Complaint Center where consumers can report privacy violations and poor privacy practices.

A collective forum for supporting privacy leadership and scholarship that advances principled data practices in support of emerging technologies. The FPF brings together industry, academics, consumer advocates, and other thought leaders to explore the challenges posed by technological innovation and develop privacy protections, ethical norms, and workable business practices.

Demand Progress harnesses grassroots tactics to oppose all measures of surveillance and to protect the democratic character of the internet — and wield it to contest concentrated corporate power and hold government accountable, gaining notoriety for its campaign against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

Privaterra is an organization that provides technical education and support for civil society organizations (especially Human Rights NGOs) in the area of data privacy, secure communications, and information security.

INCIBE is a state-owned commercial company, organized as a public limited company, owned by the Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation. INCIBE is a benchmark institution concerning the development of cybersecurity, and digital trust for the general public, for RedIRIS (the Spanish academic and research network), and businesses, especially sectors of strategic importance.

A Spanish NGO, made up primarily of young professionals, specializing in new information and communication technologies with a concern for the protection of personal data on the internet. Protege Tus Datos provides computer security training, promotes regional privacy legislation, and investigates new and emerging technologies with regard to the privacy and security of users.

A Chilean nonprofit foundation with the aim of promoting healthy and safe practices to protect your information focusing on risks associated with the devices and platforms people use every day.

An independent Dutch digital rights foundation, Bits of Freedom focuses on privacy and freedom of communication in the digital age, working to influence legislation and self-regulation while empowering citizens and users by advancing the awareness, use, and development of freedom-enhancing technologies.

ITRC is a nonprofit organization established to support victims of identity theft in resolving their cases that also works to broaden public education and awareness in the understanding of identity theft, data breaches, cybersecurity, scams, fraud, and privacy issues.

Access Now is an advocacy group fighting to defend and extend user’s digital rights. By operating a 24/7 Digital Security Hotline, organizing the annual RightsCon conference, and providing grants to grassroots organizations working to shape digital legal policy. Access Now has cemented itself as a world-wide force for good in the digital age.

EFF is a leading international digital-rights non-profit group working to protect our fundamental rights with regard to technology. Their mission is to educate the press, policymakers, and general public on digital civil liberties issues and to act as a defender of those liberties.

A nonprofit research and advocacy center that produces policy research, conduct public education campaigns and engages in legislative advocacy. EPIC’s mission is to focus public attention on emerging privacy and civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, freedom of expression, and democratic values in the information age.

A registered charity committed to fighting to protect democracy, defend people's dignity, and demand accountability from institutions who breach the public trust. PI investigates and challenges government surveillance, exposes companies that enable it, and advocates for strong laws that protect privacy.

Fight for the Future is a nonprofit organization that creates high-profile, web-based campaigns to ensure that the web continues to hold freedom of expression and creativity at its core—free of interference or censorship and with full privacy.

The IFEA is a 30-member group composed of online publishers, journalistic organizations, academic groups, and other privacy-centric institutions that oppose the adoption of techniques and standards that limit the internet as anything other than an open, diverse, and democratic communication platform.

TPRH is a nonprofit organization committed to advancing the innovative and ethical use of data by creating connections between academics, students, industry leaders, and policy advocates. Work done by TPRH explores policy approaches to allow for use of data, while protecting individual privacy, to improve issues such as access to information, education, gender and sexual violence, healthcare, and national security/law enforcement.

A nongovernmental organization for the protection of privacy on the internet, NOYB uses best practices from consumer rights groups, privacy activists, hackers, and legal tech initiatives and merges them into a stable European enforcement platform.

The AEPD is an independent public authority charged with ensuring the privacy and data protection of Spanish citizens. The agency protects citizens’ rights of access, rectification, limitation, opposition, deletion (right to be forgotten), portability, and opposition to the processing of automated decisions.

An association that integrates professionals in the protection of personal data and privacy, APEP’s purpose is to provide quality privacy standards, promote knowledge and social appreciation of the fundamental right to the protection of personal data, and defend the general interest of privacy experts ensuring their public recognition.

Derechos Digitales is an NGO that’s mission is the protection and promotion of fundamental rights in the online environment, through a comprehensive approach to the internet from the perspective of human rights, freedom of expression and privacy, as well as copyright and access to knowledge, civil and political rights, and social and cultural rights.

A Spanish legal institution providing privacy law consulting, belonging to tugesto, offers comprehensive services for compliance with the current legislation on Personal Data Protection and the Law on Services of the Information Society and Electronic Commerce for companies and freelancers.

CEDPO aims to promote the role of the EU’s Data Protection Officer (DPO) by providing advice on balanced, practicable, and effective data protection while also contributing to a better harmonization of data protection law and practices throughout the EU/EEA.

OSI is a California-based non-profit promoting the importance of non-proprietary software through public-advocacy, education, and community building. OSI works to empower transparent, peer-reviewed, high-quality, and affordable software in an effort to bring an end to predatory vendor lock-in.

The CyberPeace Institute nongovernmental organization whose mission is to ensure the rights of people to security, assist and protect vulnerable communities so they can be prepared for and recover from cyberattacks that aim to disrupt their work.