Tor: Strength in Numbers. We need your help today!

Dear Friend of Privacy, Strength in Numbers. That’s the key to ensuring privacy and freedom online. Today we’re asking you make your first financial contribution to help us continue to make Tor strong. The Tor Project depends on thousands of volunteers around the world to make the network strong. Tor users depend on millions of users to keep their communications private. The Tor Project depends on individuals like you to fund this important work. 2018 was a great year for the Tor Project. The organization grew both in size and budget. The network grew both in users and relays. We built up our UX and Community teams, and they visited some of our most vulnerable Tor users--in places like Colombia and Uganda--gathering information face-to-face to make Tor more accessible. We used that information to build Tor Browser 8, the most user-friendly Tor Browser ever. And to reach even more people in repressed areas of the world--where most access the internet exclusively through their phones--we released the first Tor Browser for Android. We’re excited to continue this important work in 2019. The Tor Project has a bold mission: to take a stand against invasive and restrictive online practices and bring privacy and freedom to internet users around the world. But we can’t do it alone. Countries like Egypt and Venezuela have tightened restrictions on free expression and accessing the open web; companies like Google and Amazon are mishandling people’s data and growing the surveillance economy; and some nations are even shutting off the internet completely to quell possible dissidence.  Today we launch our end-of-year campaign, Strength in Numbers. Your support, along with the support of many others, can ensure the Tor Project’s success into the future. Your support will also ensure we can keep listening to the critical voices of those who need Tor the most. And if you give now, your donation will be matched dollar-for-dollar through a generous matching grant by Mozilla. That means if you stand up for privacy and freedom online today with a donation to the Tor Project, you can double your impact towards securing people’s basic human rights online. The more individuals contribute, and the more financial stakeholders invest in Tor, the stronger and more secure Tor will be. Be counted today as one of those stakeholders. Every little bit helps. Because there’s Strength in Numbers. Thanks in advance for your support. Yours in privacy, Sarah Stevenson Fundraising Director P.S. - Help us get our year-end campaign off to a strong start. Donate today, and your gift will be matched by Mozilla. DONATE The Tor Project is a US 501(c)(3) non-profit organization advancing human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open-source anonymity and privacy technologies, supporting their unrestricted availability and use, and furthering their scientific and popular understanding.    I no longer want to receive fundraising opportunties from Tor | Please remove this email address from all communications from the Tor Project 217 1st Ave S #4903 Seattle, WA 98194 United States torproject.org