Our mission is to promote and defend fundamental freedoms and human rights, including the free flow of information online. Our goal is to create accessible technology and improve the skill set needed for defending human rights and freedoms in the digital age.
eQualitie through the years
Debaser: Monitoring Human Rights in Chechnya
Releases Debaser — a database for monitoring human rights violations in Chechnya. The platform, written in PHP is used by the Stichting Justice Initiative to collate and win over 420 cases in the European Court of Human Rights
Security in a Box: Digital Safety for All
Leads development and editorial of the Security in a Box project, the first effort of its kind to collate, explain and translate digital security tools and tactics to a global audience
HRIA Toolkit: Measuring Human Rights Impact
Releases the HRIA (human rights impact assessment) toolkit for Rights & Democracy
RightsCase: Investigating Human Rights Violations
Releases RightsCase — a Drupal based platform for leading investigations into human rights violations.
First Digital Security School in Vilnius
Launch of the first DSS (digital security school) in Vilnius. Cooperating with the Human Rights House it begins to build awareness and capacity for Belarus human rights defenders, media and political activists.
Deflect Launches to Protect Independent Media
The Deflect website security infrastructure is launched and begins protecting 20 human rights and independent media clients from cyber attacks.
Initial attempts to hardness machine learning for identifying malicious bot activity on the Deflect network is released as the Learn2ban project
eQualitie Incorporation & Corroborator Release
eQualitie is incorporated in Canada.
Release of Corroborator — facilitating the analysis of complex, intricate and big data using machine learning algorithms and data visualization techniques. The project was delivered to the Syria Justice and Accountability Centre to document violations during the Syrian conflict. Its current day iteration is the Bayanat system.
Advancing Encryption & Deflect Mitigation Tools
Release of the (n+1)sec encryption protocol and codebase for e2ee of synchronous group chats.
First release of Banjax, abstracting mitigation tooling from the Deflect ecosystem, operable in any Linux environment.
Launch of the digital security school in Tunis — DSS216.
Ceno Browser & Deflect’s 100-Site Milestone
Launches first iteration of Ceno — a first-of-its-kind decentralized browser for censorship circumvention. Initially built as an overlay to the Freenet network.
Deflect reaches 100 websites under its protection and launches the eQpress hosting platform. Over 20 million people visit Deflect protected websites this year.
Ceno Adopts Bittorrent, Deflect Hits 300 Sites
The Ceno project refactors its approach and begins using Bittorrent for data storage and routing.
Deflect reaches 300 websites under its protection. 40 million unique readers this year.
Digital Security in Colombia & AI-Powered Deflect
Launch of the digital security school in Colombia.
Releases Baskerville — an open source analytics engine that leverages machine learning to distinguish between normal and abnormal web traffic behavior
Deflect Expands Commercially, Investigates Threats
Deflect opens a commercial offering and servers 80 million customers
Deflect Labs investigative reporting uncovers a network of malicious actors targeting human rights activists
Deflect’s COVID-19 Response & Security Fellowship
Deflect offers free services in response to COVID19.
eQualitie concludes the Web Security Fellowship.
dComms, Ouisync & Nadiyno: Resilient Communication
The emergency communications system dComms is launched as one of
eQualitie’s responses to the invasion of Ukraine.
Launch of the Ouisync tool — decentralized and fully encrypted file sharing software.
Launch of the Nadiyno digital security helpdesk in Ukraine.
Internet Without Borders & SplinterCon Montreal
The Internet Without Borders conference series in ten cities leads to 47 technology projects serving active civil society organizations
The SplinterCon series is launched in Montreal, focused on shutdown resilient technologies
eQSat in Space & SplinterCon Brussels
eQualitie is in space! Launch of the eQSat initiative for updating isolated networks.
SplinterCon Brussels gathers 100 activists around the issues posed by the Iranian censorship system.
Team members
eQers are based around the globe, located in over a dozen countries and across five continents. United in our mission, we work tirelessly around the clock to defend our collective rights to access and share information online.
Partners
For the past 15 years, eQualitie has partnered with numerous organizations defending human rights. In addition to our own work, we’ve supported and funded global technology providers, helping to pioneer the next generation of technologies.
Some of our partners include:
Where we work
Since inception, eQualitie has worked across the globe, serving communities in over 60 countries.