Responsive privacy for safer digital presence

Civil society organizations urgently need the ability to protect their staff's personal information online during escalating threats — without permanently deleting content or spending hours on manual edits. Responsive Privacy is an open-source framework that lets organizations shift their website between full transparency and emergency protection mode in minutes, using a single environment variable and a set of pre-mapped privacy levels. This project will expand the framework into plug-and-play plugins for the most widely used website platforms, pair it with an interactive decision guide, and build a training-of-trainers program for digital security specialists worldwide.

The project began as a contained UXD Lab engagement between Draftlab and Superbloom, who led on user research and provided their own site for testing. Our work showed that there's a real and urgent need for organizations to be able to evaluate and implement their current privacy needs, allowing them to rapidly respond to acute threats to their team and community. For this reason we turned our prototype into Responsive Privacy, and committed to developing it as a long-term program that will include plugins for the most widely used website platforms, an interactive decision guide for organisations weighing what to expose, and training-of-trainers modules for digital security specialists who can carry it into their own networks.

The project is actively seeking funding for the next two to five years of work.