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Safety Without Compromising on Privacy

Our approach to safeguards in Tinfoil Chat that keeps your conversations private: model evaluations before hosting, plus safeguard models that run exclusively inside secure enclaves.

Chat Control & Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise. Through a shady collaboration between the US and the EU.

After Snowden’s whistleblowing in 2013, large parts of the internet became encrypted, enabling private and secure communication. Not everyone has welcomed this change. Most notably, the FBI and other U.S. government agencies have fought what is often called the “crypto wars”, the war on encryption. In recent years, they have been joined by the European Commission. Under the slogan “what about the children,” they try to introduce total mass surveillance of all EU citizens — first through the proposed Chat Control legislation, and later via the Going Dark and ProtectEU initiatives. The goal is to legally mandate spy tools on every European smartphone and computer. The forces behind these efforts have turned out to be American tech companies and intelligence agencies.

Using AI Chatbots: Privacy and Information Security Considerations

AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and Claude can be powerful tools for learning, productivity, and creativity. However, it’s essential to be aware of privacy and information security risks when using these platforms in the context...

Making end-to-end encrypted AI chat feel like logging in

We want private AI chat to be simple. Yet today, many end-to-end encrypted experiences still have a level of friction that make them feel like they’re from another era: it usually either involves a long seed phrase users are asked to “store securely,” insecure password based encryption, or apps that aren’t cross-device and lose your data periodically (on reinstall, browser cache clear, etc).

Better Encrypted Group Chat

Broadly, an end-to-end encrypted messaging protocol is one that ensures that only the participants in a conversation, and no intermediate servers, routers, or relay systems, can read and write messages. An end-to-end encrypted group messaging protocol is one that ensures this for all participants in a conversation of three or more people. End-to-end encrypted group […]

Top 4 AI chatbot privacy concerns and how to mitigate them | TechTa...

Explore four key chatbot privacy concerns, as well as privacy protection strategies for individual users and organizations hoping to safeguard user data.

Delta Chat: Bringing E2E privacy to the Web: 4th security audit 😅

Delta Chat’s “web apps shared in a chat” come with a unique privacy promise but in January it was shown to be compromised. We got into a surprising struggle with Web browser sandboxing issues that ...

Quiet - Private messaging. No servers.

Quiet is available for all major platforms. (And eventually the web, too!)

Quiet - Private messaging. No servers.

Quiet is available for all major platforms. (And eventually the web, too!)

A community organizer’s guide to Signal group chats

Key privacy settings and best practices.

Private Chat Backups with Local-First Principles

Introducing encrypted chat backups and multi-device syncing that extends our end-to-end privacy principles to persistent cloud storage.

Tinfoil Private Chat

Private AI chat application supporting open source models through Tinfoil

Riot releases end-to-end encryption: get ready to chat securely!

Today is a big day in the Riot world, finally releasing the very first cross-platform implementation of Matrix’s end-to-end encryption!

OpenAI unveils Lockdown Mode to protect sensitive data from prompt injection attacks | TechCrunch

Even with Lockdown Mode, ChatGPT could be vulnerable to prompt injections, but the goal is to reduce the likelihood that sensitive data gets shared in the process.

Secure messaging, anywhere - Briar

Secure messaging, anywhere