Acknowledgements

OpenPrivacy.org was influenced by numerous individuals and organizations:

Apache Software Foundation: Provided leadership with regard to project organization and management.

The Cypherpunk Manifesto (1993, Eric Hughes) The Cypherpunks are actively engaged in making the networks safer for privacy. (Fen was a founding member)

The Electronic Frontier Foundation defending civil liberties in the digital world.

Fen Labalme, a primary developer of OpenPrivacy, previously created:

• NewsPeek (1981) The first personal newspaper. Presaged social media and its dangers if privacy was not respected.
• Broadcatch Technologies (1994) Support for the attention economy.
• The SuperProfile and defining white paper An Infomediary Approach to the Privacy Problem (1999) Brokering user data while maintaining their privacy.

The Free Software Foundation: Reminds us that Freedom is something worth fighting for.

OpenSource.org: We believe that Open Source software is Better software, especially when cryptography is involved.

The World Wide Web Consortium: For organizational examples and their push of XML.