{
  "id": "community-top100",
  "type": "data",
  "title": "Top 100 Privacy Communities",
  "description": "100 global privacy/anonymity communities organized into 4 categories",
  "url": "https://anonym.community/top100.txt",
  "content": {
    "totalEntries": 100,
    "categories": [
      "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)",
      "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)",
      "C) Anti-tracking / browser hardening / privacy-user communities (66–80)",
      "D) PII anonymization / de-identification / differential privacy communities & forums (81–100)"
    ],
    "entries": [
      {
        "id": 1,
        "region": "Global/US",
        "name": "Electronic Frontier Foundation",
        "description": "EFF",
        "url": "https://www.eff.org/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 2,
        "region": "US",
        "name": "EPIC",
        "description": "Electronic Privacy Information Center",
        "url": "https://epic.org/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 3,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Access Now",
        "description": "incl. Digital Security Helpline",
        "url": "https://www.accessnow.org/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 4,
        "region": "UK/Global",
        "name": "Privacy International",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://privacyinternational.org/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 5,
        "region": "US",
        "name": "ACLU",
        "description": "Privacy & Technology",
        "url": "https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 6,
        "region": "US",
        "name": "Center for Democracy & Technology",
        "description": "CDT",
        "url": "https://cdt.org/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 7,
        "region": "US",
        "name": "Public Knowledge",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://publicknowledge.org/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 8,
        "region": "US",
        "name": "Fight for the Future",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://www.fightforthefuture.org/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 9,
        "region": "US",
        "name": "Free Press",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://www.freepress.net/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 10,
        "region": "CA",
        "name": "OpenMedia",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://openmedia.org/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 11,
        "region": "CA",
        "name": "CIPPIC",
        "description": "Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic",
        "url": "https://cippic.ca/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 12,
        "region": "CA",
        "name": "BC Civil Liberties Association",
        "description": "BCCLA",
        "url": "https://bccla.org/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 13,
        "region": "EU",
        "name": "European Digital Rights",
        "description": "EDRi",
        "url": "https://edri.org/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 14,
        "region": "EU/AT",
        "name": "noyb",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://noyb.eu/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 15,
        "region": "AT/EU",
        "name": "epicenter.works",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://epicenter.works/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 16,
        "region": "DE",
        "name": "Chaos Computer Club",
        "description": "CCC",
        "url": "https://www.ccc.de/en/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 17,
        "region": "DE",
        "name": "Digitalcourage",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://digitalcourage.de/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 18,
        "region": "UK",
        "name": "Open Rights Group",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://www.openrightsgroup.org/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 19,
        "region": "UK",
        "name": "Big Brother Watch",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 20,
        "region": "UK",
        "name": "Liberty",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 21,
        "region": "NL",
        "name": "Bits of Freedom",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/english/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 22,
        "region": "FR",
        "name": "La Quadrature du Net",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://www.laquadrature.net/en/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 23,
        "region": "PL",
        "name": "Panoptykon Foundation",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://panoptykon.org/en",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 24,
        "region": "ES",
        "name": "Xnet",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://xnet-x.net/en/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 25,
        "region": "IT",
        "name": "Hermes Center for Transparency & Digital Human Rights",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://www.hermescenter.org/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 26,
        "region": "CH",
        "name": "Digitale Gesellschaft",
        "description": "CH",
        "url": "https://digitale-gesellschaft.ch/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 27,
        "region": "BE/EU",
        "name": "APD/GBA",
        "description": "Belgian DPA portal",
        "url": "https://www.dataprotectionauthority.be/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 28,
        "region": "AU",
        "name": "Electronic Frontiers Australia",
        "description": "EFA",
        "url": "https://www.efa.org.au/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 29,
        "region": "AU",
        "name": "Digital Rights Watch",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://digitalrightswatch.org.au/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 30,
        "region": "IN",
        "name": "Internet Freedom Foundation",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://internetfreedom.in/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 31,
        "region": "PK",
        "name": "Digital Rights Foundation",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://digitalrightsfoundation.pk/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 32,
        "region": "KE",
        "name": "KICTANet",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://www.kictanet.or.ke/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 33,
        "region": "UG",
        "name": "CIPESA",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://cipesa.org/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 34,
        "region": "NG",
        "name": "Paradigm Initiative",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://paradigmhq.org/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 35,
        "region": "LB/MENA",
        "name": "SMEX",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://smex.org/",
        "category": "A) Data deletion / legal rights / advocacy (1–35)"
      },
      {
        "id": 36,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Tor Project",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://www.torproject.org/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 37,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Tor Community Portal",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://community.torproject.org/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 38,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Tails OS",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://tails.net/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 39,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Qubes OS",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://www.qubes-os.org/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 40,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Qubes Community Forum",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://forum.qubes-os.org/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 41,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Whonix",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://www.whonix.org/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 42,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Whonix Forums",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://forums.whonix.org/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 43,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "I2P",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://geti2p.net/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 44,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "I2P Forum",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://i2pforum.net/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 45,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "GNUnet",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://www.gnunet.org/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 46,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Riseup",
        "description": "activist-run services",
        "url": "https://riseup.net/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 47,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Calyx Institute",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://calyxinstitute.org/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 48,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "GrapheneOS",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://grapheneos.org/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 49,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "GrapheneOS Forum",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://discuss.grapheneos.org/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 50,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Signal",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://signal.org/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 51,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Signal Community Forum",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://community.signalusers.org/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 52,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Matrix",
        "description": "secure decentralized comms",
        "url": "https://matrix.org/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 53,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Matrix Community",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://matrix.to/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 54,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "OpenVPN",
        "description": "community + project",
        "url": "https://openvpn.net/community/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 55,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Wire",
        "description": "secure messenger",
        "url": "https://wire.com/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 56,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "OpenPGP / GnuPG",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://gnupg.org/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 57,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Debian Privacy/Security community",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://www.debian.org/security/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 58,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity",
        "description": "HHGOA",
        "url": "https://anonymousplanet.org/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 59,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Tactical Tech",
        "description": "security & privacy resources",
        "url": "https://tacticaltech.org/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 60,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Security in-a-box",
        "description": "Tactical Tech",
        "url": "https://securityinabox.org/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 61,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Freedom of the Press Foundation",
        "description": "secure comms/resources",
        "url": "https://freedom.press/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 62,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "The Guardian Project",
        "description": "Android privacy/security tools",
        "url": "https://guardianproject.info/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 63,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Open Technology Fund",
        "description": "OTF",
        "url": "https://www.opentech.fund/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 64,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Psiphon",
        "description": "censorship circumvention",
        "url": "https://psiphon.ca/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 65,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "censorship circumvention community",
        "description": "OONI",
        "url": "https://ooni.org/",
        "category": "B) Anonymous browsing / circumvention / secure comms communities (36–65)"
      },
      {
        "id": 66,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Privacy Guides",
        "description": "knowledge base",
        "url": "https://www.privacyguides.org/",
        "category": "C) Anti-tracking / browser hardening / privacy-user communities (66–80)"
      },
      {
        "id": 67,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Privacy Guides Forum",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net/",
        "category": "C) Anti-tracking / browser hardening / privacy-user communities (66–80)"
      },
      {
        "id": 68,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Mozilla",
        "description": "privacy initiatives",
        "url": "https://www.mozilla.org/",
        "category": "C) Anti-tracking / browser hardening / privacy-user communities (66–80)"
      },
      {
        "id": 69,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Firefox Support",
        "description": "privacy & security help community",
        "url": "https://support.mozilla.org/",
        "category": "C) Anti-tracking / browser hardening / privacy-user communities (66–80)"
      },
      {
        "id": 70,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Brave",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://brave.com/",
        "category": "C) Anti-tracking / browser hardening / privacy-user communities (66–80)"
      },
      {
        "id": 71,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Brave Community",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://community.brave.com/",
        "category": "C) Anti-tracking / browser hardening / privacy-user communities (66–80)"
      },
      {
        "id": 72,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "uBlock Origin",
        "description": "project",
        "url": "https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock",
        "category": "C) Anti-tracking / browser hardening / privacy-user communities (66–80)"
      },
      {
        "id": 73,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "AdGuard",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://adguard.com/",
        "category": "C) Anti-tracking / browser hardening / privacy-user communities (66–80)"
      },
      {
        "id": 74,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "DuckDuckGo",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://duckduckgo.com/",
        "category": "C) Anti-tracking / browser hardening / privacy-user communities (66–80)"
      },
      {
        "id": 75,
        "region": "CH",
        "name": "Proton",
        "description": "privacy ecosystem",
        "url": "https://proton.me/",
        "category": "C) Anti-tracking / browser hardening / privacy-user communities (66–80)"
      },
      {
        "id": 76,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "NextDNS",
        "description": "privacy DNS",
        "url": "https://nextdns.io/",
        "category": "C) Anti-tracking / browser hardening / privacy-user communities (66–80)"
      },
      {
        "id": 77,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "OpenWrt",
        "description": "router privacy/network hardening community",
        "url": "https://openwrt.org/",
        "category": "C) Anti-tracking / browser hardening / privacy-user communities (66–80)"
      },
      {
        "id": 78,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "OWASP",
        "description": "privacy/security community",
        "url": "https://owasp.org/",
        "category": "C) Anti-tracking / browser hardening / privacy-user communities (66–80)"
      },
      {
        "id": 79,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Have I Been Pwned",
        "description": "account exposure checking; community-driven",
        "url": "https://haveibeenpwned.com/",
        "category": "C) Anti-tracking / browser hardening / privacy-user communities (66–80)"
      },
      {
        "id": 80,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Consumer Reports – Security Planner",
        "description": "privacy checklists",
        "url": "https://securityplanner.consumerreports.org/",
        "category": "C) Anti-tracking / browser hardening / privacy-user communities (66–80)"
      },
      {
        "id": 81,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "OpenDP",
        "description": "differential privacy community",
        "url": "https://opendp.org/",
        "category": "D) PII anonymization / de-identification / differential privacy communities & forums (81–100)"
      },
      {
        "id": 82,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "OpenDP GitHub",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://github.com/opendp",
        "category": "D) PII anonymization / de-identification / differential privacy communities & forums (81–100)"
      },
      {
        "id": 83,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Differential Privacy",
        "description": "Google",
        "url": "https://github.com/google/differential-privacy",
        "category": "D) PII anonymization / de-identification / differential privacy communities & forums (81–100)"
      },
      {
        "id": 84,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Microsoft Presidio",
        "description": "PII detection/anonymization",
        "url": "https://github.com/microsoft/presidio",
        "category": "D) PII anonymization / de-identification / differential privacy communities & forums (81–100)"
      },
      {
        "id": 85,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Microsoft SmartNoise",
        "description": "DP tooling",
        "url": "https://github.com/opendp/smartnoise-sdk",
        "category": "D) PII anonymization / de-identification / differential privacy communities & forums (81–100)"
      },
      {
        "id": 86,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Tumult Analytics",
        "description": "DP library",
        "url": "https://github.com/tumult-labs/tumult",
        "category": "D) PII anonymization / de-identification / differential privacy communities & forums (81–100)"
      },
      {
        "id": 87,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "ARX Data Anonymization Tool",
        "description": "",
        "url": "https://arx.deidentifier.org/",
        "category": "D) PII anonymization / de-identification / differential privacy communities & forums (81–100)"
      },
      {
        "id": 88,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "sdcMicro",
        "description": "R anonymization for microdata",
        "url": "https://cran.r-project.org/package=sdcMicro",
        "category": "D) PII anonymization / de-identification / differential privacy communities & forums (81–100)"
      },
      {
        "id": 89,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Amnesia",
        "description": "tabular anonymization",
        "url": "https://amnesia.openaire.eu/",
        "category": "D) PII anonymization / de-identification / differential privacy communities & forums (81–100)"
      },
      {
        "id": 90,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Faker",
        "description": "synthetic test data; PII-safe dev patterns",
        "url": "https://github.com/joke2k/faker",
        "category": "D) PII anonymization / de-identification / differential privacy communities & forums (81–100)"
      },
      {
        "id": 91,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "synthetic data community",
        "description": "SDV",
        "url": "https://github.com/sdv-dev/SDV",
        "category": "D) PII anonymization / de-identification / differential privacy communities & forums (81–100)"
      },
      {
        "id": 92,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "OpenMined",
        "description": "privacy-preserving ML community",
        "url": "https://www.openmined.org/",
        "category": "D) PII anonymization / de-identification / differential privacy communities & forums (81–100)"
      },
      {
        "id": 93,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "PySyft",
        "description": "OpenMined federated/privacy ML",
        "url": "https://github.com/OpenMined/PySyft",
        "category": "D) PII anonymization / de-identification / differential privacy communities & forums (81–100)"
      },
      {
        "id": 94,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "PETs Symposium",
        "description": "Privacy Enhancing Technologies",
        "url": "https://petsymposium.org/",
        "category": "D) PII anonymization / de-identification / differential privacy communities & forums (81–100)"
      },
      {
        "id": 95,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "IACR",
        "description": "privacy/crypto research community hub",
        "url": "https://www.iacr.org/",
        "category": "D) PII anonymization / de-identification / differential privacy communities & forums (81–100)"
      },
      {
        "id": 96,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Differential Privacy Symposium",
        "description": "community event",
        "url": "https://differentialprivacy.org/",
        "category": "D) PII anonymization / de-identification / differential privacy communities & forums (81–100)"
      },
      {
        "id": 97,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Privado",
        "description": "privacy code scanning; community + OSS",
        "url": "https://github.com/Privado-Inc/privado",
        "category": "D) PII anonymization / de-identification / differential privacy communities & forums (81–100)"
      },
      {
        "id": 98,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Apache DataFu",
        "description": "data anonymization utilities; community",
        "url": "https://datafu.apache.org/",
        "category": "D) PII anonymization / de-identification / differential privacy communities & forums (81–100)"
      },
      {
        "id": 99,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Kaggle",
        "description": "privacy/DP/anonymization discussion via notebooks",
        "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/",
        "category": "D) PII anonymization / de-identification / differential privacy communities & forums (81–100)"
      },
      {
        "id": 100,
        "region": "Global",
        "name": "Stack Overflow",
        "description": "PII/anonymization/DP Q&A entry point",
        "url": "https://stackoverflow.com/",
        "category": "D) PII anonymization / de-identification / differential privacy communities & forums (81–100)"
      }
    ]
  },
  "metadata": {
    "lastModified": "2026-03-14"
  }
}