Allies

Guided by their vision for an inclusive & equitable tech industry, TWC organizes to build worker and community power through rank & file self-organization and education.

UAPTSD works for systemic change in law enforcement agencies and advocating for victims of excessive force or police misconduct. They concentrate our efforts in the San Diego County and the collective’s work includes: informing people of their rights, lending support to victims of police terror by helping them file complaints in the police ethics system and dealing with wrongful accusations. They also denounce the harassment, violence, intimidation, arrests and abuse of power by police.

The Arkansas chapter of the National Lawyers Guid is a membership organization of lawyers, law students, legal workers, and legal observers addressing inequalities in political, economic, and judicial systems. This chapter can help with Know Your Rights training and finding trained legal observers for local protests.

PLUG is a group of people in the Phoenix, Arizona, USA area who get together several times a month. They have various meetings in several different formats all with the common goal of educating the public about the Linux operating system.

The Open Computing Facility (OCF) is an all-volunteer student organization dedicated to free computing for all University of California, Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.

Access Humboldt is an innovative, self-sustaining and trusted media resource for residents of Humboldt County. It's members utilize local access media resources to engage in meaningful conversations that increase participation in civic life.

Root Access was founded in June 2017 with the goal of filling the gaps in Fresno's technology scene by building a community space for coders, engineers, hobbyists, and other technology makers to learn, explore, and share.

CRASH Space is a collection of hackers, programmers, builders, makers, and artists who promote science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) by teaching classes, participating in events, providing on-line resources, and by running a shared workshop.

Oakland Privacy is a citizens’ coalition that works statewide to defend the right to privacy, enhance public transparency and promote oversight regarding the use of surveillance techniques and equipment. As experts on municipal privacy reform, they have written use policies and impact reports for a variety of surveillance technologies, conducted research and investigations, and developed frameworks for the implementation of equipment with respect for civil rights, privacy protections and community control.

PPJC has a well-deserved reputation for presenting some of the world’s finest progressive speakers. They offer a free monthly forum on a wide variety of issues – broadcast live on local TV – and host visiting activists from around the globe.

Their goal is to use street theater, humor, satire and props to get their message across: world peace, feminist values, racial justice, immigrant rights, and equal rights for all.

techLEAD researches tech issues, provide aid to the community, host and attend gatherings, help educate the public, defend those who are on the margins, and provide knowledge support to decision-makers and leaders in San Diego.

Aspiration offers a range of options for organizations interested in increasing their capacity around using technology. Hands-on training, technical support, and coaching in strategy and implementation are provided by their experienced program staff.

They’re a volunteer-run collective. Members do roughly one 3-4hr shift a week, running the store and working the cash register.

Cybersecurity Club of San Francisco State University

They use digital tools to create art and design projects that benefit society. They also test and scale projects with high impact potential, teach digital tools to support artists and technologists, and inspire the community by promoting meaningful new work.

No Ethics in Big Tech's targets big tech corporations and works to educate the public on the tech industry and its leaders’ inhumane business practices.

Noisebridge is a creative technology community for excellent, do-ocratic, consensus-based collaboration. Noisebridge is a physical space open and welcoming to all, providing infrastructure and collaboration opportunities for anyone interested in programming, hardware, crafts, science, robotics, art, and technology.

CPCSCC probes city, county, and federal government offices through public records requests to determine techniques and funding behind surveillance efforts anywhere in the county. They also attend public meetings in which surveillance issues are discussed to stay up-to-date with ongoing efforts.

Cal Poly's group of security-oriented individuals who strive to make cybersecurity concepts and ethical hacking practices and training available and accessible to everyone.

Canal Alliance offers immigration legal services, education and career programs, and social services to help Latino immigrants and their families overcome the barriers to success.

DEF CON 719 is a community of Colorado Springs residents sharing their passion for IT security at regular educational meetups.

Privacy Lab is an initiative of the Information Society Project at Yale Law Schoo exploring the connection between privacy, security, and anonymity through hands-on software and hardware implementation, such as cybersecurity workshops.

Ethical Tech Initiative is a research group for law students at George Washington University which holds regular events highlighting implicite values in digital technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, and how they can be built differently.

The UF Student Infosec Team (UFSIT) is the cybersecurity club at the University of Florida. They are student-led and passionate about all things cybersecurity and their weekly meetings are a great place to learn and often include presentations from club members and industry professionals on a wide array of security topics. Their goal is to provide a welcoming environment for students to learn more about all areas of information security, including topics such as penetration testing, reverse engineering, vulnerability research, digital forensics, and more.

Wolfson Cyber Association, an award-winning chapter of Women in Cybersecurity, builds community and public knowlegde around events and cybersecurity trainings.

Hack@UCF strives to foster awareness of information security in Central Florida by getting the campus community involved in the cyber realm through education and experience in both offensive and defensive security strategies.

Sharing resources to get students started in cybersecurity and competing in CTF's.

EFGA is a nonprofit advocacy group advancing digital rights through regular community events and direct legislative advocacy on the state and city level.

The Georgia chapter of the international youth-led coalition Encode Justice, fighting for rights and justice in artificial intelligence.

CCDBR has fought for 43 years against government encroachment on our constitutional rights in all forms through organizing, education, and work for legislation that will protect the First Amendment and due process rights of the community.

Lucy Parsons Labs is a charitable collaboration between data scientists, transparency activists, artists, and technologists that sheds light on the intersection of digital rights and on-the-streets issues.

Citizen Network of Protection is a nonprofit established to assist residents with filing complaints against police officers’ misconduct and promotes racial and economic justice within the legal system. CNP also works with communities directly impacted by injustice in law enforcement to form alliances which elevate their work and leadership.

Digital Foruth is the Boston chapter of Restore the Foruth, fighting to preserve privacy protections of the US Constitution, and apply them to everyone; but also preserve the freedom to experiment, to innovate, to create, and to agitate.

Cambridge Community Television (CCTV) nurtures a strong, equitable and diverse community by providing tools and training to foster free speech, civic engagement, and creative expression. They aim to bridge the digital divide in cambridge by bringing high quality media trainings to community members.

Upgrade Cambridge is a grassroots effort to move Cambridge, Massachusetts forward on municipal broadband. As an essential service we need fast, reliable, and affordable access to the internet for all residents and businesses in the city.

Community-centered movement to raise awareness about & address online privacy issues faced by Gen Zers.

Kinetics is an information ministry that integrates theological reflection and practice, and uses dialogue as a catalyst for social change, often hold informative community events on the intersection of digital technolofy and social justice.

Project Waves was founded in response to the 2018 repeal of Net Neutrality to connect more than 300 households to free, high-speed home Internet service. Project Waves continues to grow serving as a model for other municipalities as the Digital Divide looms in the United States today.

Minneapolis Telecommunications Network is the first nonprofit internet service provider in Minneapolis, and provides the community with access to technical training, studio space, and cable broadcast.

The Workers’ Defense Alliance is a network of working class people and autonomous councils committed to building community self-defense and mutual aid projects.

The Minnesotta chapter of Restoe the Fourth is dedicated to restoring the protections of the Fourth Amendment, protecting peoples privacy, and ending mass government surveillance.

Privacy Watch is a coalition dedicated to ending over-surveillance by government and government/corporate partnerships. They expose how residents or reacked withouy public discussion, approval, or recourse, while centering communities of color, immigrants, poor people, activists, and other unjustly targeted groups.

EJ North Carolina Chapter is a youth-lead organization dedicated to education, policy development, and global growth related to the applications of AI.

DEF CON Group 919 is a community group in the Raleigh/Durham area of North Carolina, providing a gathering place for hacking discussions, conference support, presentation and workshop testing venue.

Raleigh-Durham chapter of Security BSides, a community-driven framework for building events for and by cyber security community members.

DEFCON 201 is the DEFCON Group serving the north east 201 area code region of North New Jersey. They meet monthly to work on hardware/software projects and learn by collaborative effort.

NICC is the New Jersey institute of Technology's official Information & Cybersecurity Club and started as a way to give NJIT students interested in cybersecurity, ethical hacking, and CTFs a group that would help them learn, grow, and hone their skills.

Eyebeam is a nonprofit studio for collaborative experiments with technology toward a more imaginative and just world. By providing generous support to artists for research, production and education, Eyebeam makes ideas real.

BMLP provides legal support to local communities throughout the country as they demonstrate against police brutality and systemic racism. We believe in a community centered approach - providing holistic legal and technical service with an understanding that mass defense movement legal experience is often missing from the local equation.

Calyx Institute is a non-profit education and research organization devoted to studying, testing and developing and implementing privacy technology and tools to promote free speech, free expression, civic engagement and privacy rights on the internet and in the mobile communications industry.

As America’s premier Muslim civil rights group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations has worked for more than 25 years to defend the constitution. The New York chapter is one of the busiest and most dynamic of CAIR’s thirty-five nationwide affiliates, defending, representing, and educating nearly one million Muslims in the New York area.

May First Movement Technology is a non-profit membership organization that engages in building movements by advancing the strategic use and collective control of technology for local struggles, global transformation, and emancipation without borders.

S.T.O.P. litigates and advocates for privacy, working to abolish local governments’ systems of mass surveillance. Its work highlights the discriminatory impact of surveillance on Muslim Americans, immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community, indigenous peoples, and communities of color, particularly the unique trauma of anti-Black policing.

Cypurr is a small cryptoparty and cat-enthusiast collective working to educate the public on cybersecurity in an accessible and hollistic way. It aims to resist systemic oppressions through community self-defense.

Current Affairs Society at Stony Brook University promotes multi-perspective conversations about current events, global issues, national security, and civil liberties.

Open Source Club at the Ohio State University is a student organization whose members share a common interest in open source software. It aims to create an environment where the benefits of open development enable students to collaborate and explore beyond the classroom.

The Fuse Factory is an art and technology initiative focused on cultivating artistic production, research, and experimentation with digital media and electronic tools.

Oregon Chapter of Encode Justice - the world’s first and largest youth movement for human-centered AI.

Their mission is to guide Portlanders to create a new option for fast internet access:  Publicly owned and transparently operated, affordable, secure, fast and reliable broadband infrastructure that is always available to every neighborhood and community.

OSUSEC focuses on gaining hands-on experience with exploiting vulnerabilities in systems and networks, defending against these attacks, getting involved in the security community and participating in CTF’s.

Their Mission: To bring about transparency and control in the acquisition and use of surveillance systems in the Portland Metro area, whether personal data is captured by the government or by commercial entities. Transparency is essential to ensure privacy protections, community control, fairness, and respect for civil rights.

Dedicated to the idea that users have a central role in how their communications networks are operated. They do that by building their own networks that are shared with the local community, and by helping to educate others in how they can too.

Techno-Activism Third Mondays (TA3M) is an informal meetup designed to connect software creators and activists who are interested in censorship, surveillance, and open technology.

Defcon 215 (Philadelphia) is a shared hackerspace for cybersecurity professionals, enthusiasts and beginners in their career. We welcome anyone interested in the vast and diverse field of hacking whether defense, offense or orchestration. They are also capable of prototyping robots, drones and other electronics in our maker space area with 3D printers, electronics equipment and other safety tools, plus run and manage their own in-house IT infrastructure for application development, software and hardware engineering.

Puerto Rico-based NGO focusing on reducing police violence in the colony.

Rhode Island Rights is a state and local advocacy group, with a focus on combatting state and corporate surveillance.

DC864 is the local DEF CON community group for the 864 area code in South Carolina. The group provides learning opportunities, resources, and camaraderie for anyone interested in digital privacy and information security. All ages/skill levels welcome.

Devanooga is a community for current developers, aspiring developers, and anyone who works closely with developers.

EFF-Austin was actually the first EFF Chapter back in 1992. Years later, after EFF moved away from the chapter model, they are still active allies in the Austin area. EFF-Austin regularly highlights digital rights issues and the potential for new technologies with regular live events, and is active on city and state level advocacy.

Open Austin's mission is to end disparity in Austin WITH technology and IN technology. It envision a city that respects and serves all people. Open Austin does this through facilitating issue-based conversations between government and residents, providing service to local nonprofits and community groups that leverage our expertise, and advocating for policy that utilizes technology to improve the community.

Advocating for less police surveillance, less criminalization & incarceration, and less divestment from our communities; while advocating for investment in our communities, our people, and our kids. We want to increase programs that address the root causes of violence so harm doesn't happen in the first place.

Advocating for diversity & inclusion in science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics (STEAM) via community education, outreach, & support networks so all people feel welcomed & wanted in these exciting fields.

DefCon Group 253 - Founded in 2018 to bring together Tacoma area hackers.